Hugh Bolton Jones (1848-1927)
Hugh Bolton Jones, together with his brother, Francis Coates Jones, followed the path of many late 19th century American artists and, after early art studies on the East Coast, sought further instruction at the Academie Julian in Paris, between 1876 and 1880. During his stay in France, Jones discovered both Pont-Aven and Grez-sur-Loing, but in neither case did his experiences result in any doctrinaire aesthetic. Instead, his training launched a sixty-year career as a landscape painter that balanced both Tonalist and Impressionist styles. Jones’s landscapes are always recognizable by their delicacy of touch, restrained composition, poetic color, and pictorial elegance, traits that are also a hallmark of the works of his contemporary, Dwight Tryon.
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