Here is a whimsical sketch he made for a friend that you may relate to as a married man:
http://pbfineart.com/jjones/bed_600_417.jpg --- In [email protected], "seventhray27" wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > > Hey Steve, thanks for the reply. I agree that FFL is a great place to > be inspired to write daily. I used it that way for years. > > > > Your story about the ill fated trip to the museum as a sketch expert > has a funny connection for me. My late uncle (not by blood > unfortunately) was Joe Jones who is a pretty famous St. Louis painter, > and whose biggest collection of work hangs there. He was like Woody > Guthrie as a painter in the 30's and was famous for exposing the dark > underbelly of oppressed people. He made some big waves with this > painting titled "American Justice" > > > > > http://artandsocialissues.cmaohio.org/web-content/images/Jones_Am-Justic\ > e_pg.jpg > > > > Here is a short documentary on his art. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBvCEdBewo8 > > > > I may have to make a trip out there to see his work in the museum. He > has some stuff in the DC National museums but they are in rotation and > very limited. People where more interested in his socially conscious > stuff and not as interested in his more abstract work as he evolved as a > painter. I have some of his stuff on my walls including a beautiful one > of the ocean at Mantoloking NJ done for my parents. He had been a > communist in the 30's and this caused him lots of trouble, both when he > took up the cause and when he dropped out of it. > > > > One of my few memories of being age 5 is a weird scene the year before > he died at age 54. We were at the beach together at my Grandfather's > place in Mantoloking NJ (tip of the hat to Alex). He was trying to > convince me that he really was my uncle and I was having none of it. It > really upset him that I thought he was putting me on since I had not > spent time with him. I guess that is why it stuck in my young mind > because he went to get my father to get me to accept him as a relative. > I suspect any meeting with some God after death will go the same way! > > > Curtis, that is so cool. I just watched the documentary. This will give > me some excuse to visit the Art Museum. > > To have rubbed shoulders with an artist as a young child, and an artist > of this caliber seems pretty remarkable. > > I guess I put artists on a pedestal. > > The family was in Snowmass CO. over Christmas, which is just down the > road from Aspen. One evening, we walked through town as we like to do, > and stopped in some fancy art galleries. The art there was just > fantastic. And I'm not talking about weird stuff. But rather these > abstractions that you refer to. And not outlandish abstactions, but > rather, projecting something just out of the ordinary in a remarkably > alluring way. > > I mean, people may view Aspen as a place with a lot of pretention, but I > will say that the art we saw that evening was remarkable. > > And some of the clientele we saw were also quite remarkable. >
