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Article: Lois Jones: after a 75-year quest for recognition, painter says, 'At 90, I arrived.'
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- Ebony
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- January 1, 1997
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When painter Lois Mailou Jones was 15 years old, her mother hung her daughter's watercolors on a clothesline at their summer home on Martha's Vineyard. She invited friends over for punch and a chance to be a patron of the young artists work. "Mother's garden was my gallery," remembers Jones, smiling.
Jones has been painting ever since, for 75 productive years - and counting. And her work, which over the years has blended French, African, Caribbean and American themes, now hangs not in a backyard garden but in some of the country's most prestigious galleries. Among them: the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum ...