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Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912–28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).
Early life and education
Barbara Jones was born in Croydon, Surrey. She attended Coloma Convent Girls' School, and Croydon High School. She attended Croydon School of Art before studying Mural Decoration at the Royal College of Art.
Early Career
During World War IIJones was associated with the Recording Britainproject of the Pilgrim Trustwhile the War Artists' Advisory Committeealso purchased a work by her.[1]Postwar, Jones created murals for the 1946Britain Can Make Itexhibition, the 1947 Enterprise Scotlandexhibition, and for the 1951 Festival of Britainexhibition.[2]She also worked for P&O, creating murals for the passenger liner ships SS Orcades, SS Oronsay, SS Orsovaand SS Oriana, as well as for hotels, restaurants, exhibitions and schools.
Jones also worked on the children's television series The Woodentops. Most of the works, because of the nature of where they were created, have now disappeared. However many books containing her artwork remain, in the form of dust-jackets and illustrations.
Black Eyes and Lemonade
In 1951 Jones curated Black Eyes and Lemonade, an exhibition of craft, folk, and popular objects at the Whitechapel Gallery.[3] Originally, the project was instigated by the Society for Education in Art (SEA) to explore the qualities of folk art in Britain and its value in art education.[4] However, the exhibition that Jones planned put folk art in dialogue with consumer objects—some of which were mass-produced—to explore the characteristics of contemporary popular art in Britain at that time.
The Unsophisticated Arts
Artistic Networks
Jones was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists(SIA), editing the society's journal from 1951-1953. In 1969 she was made the society's Vice-President. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Instituteand a member of the Society of Authors.
She was said to belong to that group of Royal College of Art artists and illustrators, more well-known than she, who were her contemporaries: John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Raviliousand Edward Ardizzone. When she was at Croydon High School she made friends with a girl called Joyce Drew who later became architect and town planner Jane Drew, and it seems they influenced each other in their careers: Jane said they stayed friends.
Personal Life
She married the artist Clifford Barry[5]whom she had met while at the Royal College of Art. The marriage did not last long and they did not have any children.
List of Publications
- Jones, Barbara: The Isle of Wightillustrated and described by Barbara Jones, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950.
- Jones, Barbara: Follies and Grottoes, London: Constable & Co., 1953.
- Jones, Barbara: English Furniture at a glancewritten and illustrated by Barbara Jones, London: Architectural Press, 1954.
- Jones, Barbara: Water-Colour Painting, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1960.
- Jones, Barbara: The Unsophisticated Arts, London: Architectural Press, 1951.
- Braybrooke, June & Jones, Barbara: Isobel English, London: Max Parrish & Co., 1964.
- Jones, Barbara: Design for Death, London: Andre Deutsch, 1967.
- Jones, Barbara: Twit and Howlet and the Balloon, London: Longman Young Books, 1970.
- Jones, Barbara & Howell, Bill: Popular Arts of the First World War, London: Studio Vista, 1972. Review
- Jones, Barbara & Ouellette, William: Erotic Postcards, London: Macdonald & Jane's Publishers, 1977.
List of Exhibitions & Sales
In 1999 the Katharine House Gallery in Marlboroughheld a sale of her studio works.
- ^ Imperial War Museum. "Correspondence with artists, Barbara Jones". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Barbara Jones archives". University of Brighton Design Archives. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Barbara Jones, (Biography)". University of Brighton Design Archives. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ Catherine, Moriarty (2018). "Popular Art, Pop Art, and 'the Boys who Turn out the Fine Arts'". In Massey, Anne; Seago, Alex (eds.). Pop Art and Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 27. ISBN 9781474226196.
- ^ Clifford Barry designed posters for London Transport in 1937