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Landscape with Ducks, by Hugh Bolton Jones, 1873. Oil on canvas. 13 15/16 x 22 3/64 in. (35.4 x 56 cm.) Maryland Historical Society, Accession: 1956-50-162.
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Landscape, by Hugh Bolton Jones, 1876. Oil. 8 15/16 x 22 in. (22.7 x 55.9 cm). Maryland Historical Society, Accession: 1963-66-13.
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Autumn Landscape near Barrington, VT, by Hugh Bolton Jones, 1876 or 1878. Oil on canvas. 7 63/64 x 14 1/16 in. (20.3 x 35.7 cm). Maryland Historical Society, City Life Museums Collection, Accession: MA579.
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Medium/Discipline: Painting
Birthplace: Baltimore
Maryland Affiliation: Born here, Depicts Maryland subjects, Active while in residence
Prominent Theme: Landscapes
Subject Headings: Jones, Hugh; Hugh Bolton Jones; Jones, Bolton; Jones, Bolton (Hugh); Jones, Hugh
Places of Residence: Baltimore, 1865-76
Gender: Male
Biography: Born in Baltimore, Hugh Bolton Jones was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1865-76. Despite five years of travel abroad in 1876-81 to the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany popular among modern artists, such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, and then to North Africa, Jones continued to depict the wooded Maryland countryside in his painting after his eventual settling in New York in 1881. In Brittany and in Spain, he did sketching tours, and paintings resulting from his trip were shown in Baltimore in 1878. He later studied with Frederic Edwin Church, renowned Hudson River School painter, in Jamaica. Scholar Elizabeth Johns notes that Jones' soft brushwork technique and light-colored palette reflect his travels abroad. Paintings by Jones are a part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Education/Training: Maryland Institute College of Art
Taught By: Frederic Edwin Church
Selected References: Dean, Mary A. [et al.]. 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland (College Park : Art Gallery, and Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland), 1984.
Pleasants, J. Hall. Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art), 1945.
Woods, Jean. Celebrating 350 Years: Nineteenth-Century Maryland Artists (Hagerstown: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts exhibition April 1-29), 1984.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Baltimore Museum of Art; Maryland Historical Society; Walters Art Museum; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Multiple-Artist Exhibitions: National Academy of Design, New York, 1874 and after
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