John Paul Jones (American, 1924-1999), Untitled, 1962 Lithograph
John Paul Jones (1924–1999) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator whose national reputation during the 1950s and 1960s rested largely on his figurative drawings and prints. After studying printmaking at the University of Iowa, Jones was recruited in 1953 to establish the printmaking program at UCLA and later taught at the University of California, Irvine. His works of this period often present solitary figures whose features emerge from rubbed, scraped, and heavily worked passages of ink. Faces remain recognizable but incomplete, giving the subjects a remote, dreamlike presence without abandoning the human figure. Jones received a major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1963, and his work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Laguna Art Museum.
Untitled, is a 1962 lithograph printed from stone in black on white Arches paper at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. Four small portrait studies are widely spaced across the sheet, with each figure emerging differently from rubbed and brushed passages of black. Inscribed “Tam Imp” and initialed “J.P.J.” in pencil at lower right, denoting a Tamarind workshop impression outside the numbered edition; with Tamarind and Joseph Zirker printer’s blindstamps at lower left. The pencil notation “681B” appears on the verso. Sheet measures approximately 14.875 × 11.125 inches. The sheet exhibits light age toning and handling wear, naturally deckled edges, and two old paper-hinge remnants at the upper corners verso. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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John Paul Jones (1924–1999) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator whose national reputation during the 1950s and 1960s rested largely on his figurative drawings and prints. After studying printmaking at the University of Iowa, Jones was recruited in 1953 to establish the printmaking program at UCLA and later taught at the University of California, Irvine. His works of this period often present solitary figures whose features emerge from rubbed, scraped, and heavily worked passages of ink. Faces remain recognizable but incomplete, giving the subjects a remote, dreamlike presence without abandoning the human figure. Jones received a major solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1963, and his work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Laguna Art Museum.
Untitled, is a 1962 lithograph printed from stone in black on white Arches paper at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. Four small portrait studies are widely spaced across the sheet, with each figure emerging differently from rubbed and brushed passages of black. Inscribed “Tam Imp” and initialed “J.P.J.” in pencil at lower right, denoting a Tamarind workshop impression outside the numbered edition; with Tamarind and Joseph Zirker printer’s blindstamps at lower left. The pencil notation “681B” appears on the verso. Sheet measures approximately 14.875 × 11.125 inches. The sheet exhibits light age toning and handling wear, naturally deckled edges, and two old paper-hinge remnants at the upper corners verso. Provenance of Martin and Enid Gleich.
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Dimensions
14.875 x 11.125 in
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