Lois mailou jones harlem renaissance biography
Lois mailou jones harlem renaissance biography
Harlem renaissance.
Loïs Mailou Jones
Artist
born Boston, MA 1905-died Washington, DC 1998
- Also known as
- Lois Mailou Jones
- Lois Jones
- Lois Jones Pierre-Noel
- Born
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Died
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Active in
- Paris, France
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Biography
Now in her eighth decade as an artist, Lois Mailou Jones has treated an extraordinary range of subjects—from French, Haitian, and New England landscapes to the sources and issues of African-American culture.
The scope of her rigorous training in Boston, New York, Paris, Italy, and Africa is equally evident in her costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings, and collages.
In Les Fetiches, [SAAM, 1990.56] an ensemble of African figurative fetishes and masks hovers in space-divorced from any sense of ceremony, display, or storage.
The masks have assumed a life of their own, capturing the electrifying magic associated with ritualistic ob