Lois Mailou Jones scrapbooks
name: label: Creator
content: Jones, Lois Mailou (1905-1998)
label: Names
content: Howard University
label: Names
content: Bernard, Emile, 1868-1941
place: label: Place
content: Africa, French-speaking West -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Designers -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: African American art -- African influences
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: Art, Haitian
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Women designers
label: Topic
content: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
label: Topic
content: African American educators
label: Topic
content: African American painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Lois Mailou Jones, 1990 and 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jones, Lois Mailou (1905-1998)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was an African American painter, designer, and educator in Washington, DC. Jones studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and at the Academie Julian in Paris. She was professor of design and watercolor at Howard University from 1930-1977. She married Haitian graphic designer Vergniaud Pierre-Noel in 1953 and the couple frequently returned to Haiti. In 1970 she served as cultural ambassador to Africa for the United States Information Agency.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Microfilm reels (27 volumes on 5 microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jonelois
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4371-4374 and 4577 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Washington, D.C. holds the Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998, which include the original scrapbooks, reels 4371-74, 4577.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm collection contains Lois Mailou Jones' scrapbooks documenting her career as an African American artist and educator. Scrapbooks contain correspondence (1928-1992) primarily regarding Jones' exhibitions, Howard University, and her art education in Paris, and include a letter and photograph from Emile Bernard; photographs of Jones in her Washington, D.C. and Paris studios, her work, and her extensive travels through Africa and Haiti; and printed material including exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings (1922-1992) of reviews, interviews, and articles on the European and African influences in her work. Also included are her resume, materials submitted for the Rosenwald Fellowship, and notes related to her coordination of the 1974 exhibition Paintings by Women Artists of the Caribbean and Afro-American Women Artists.