Prescott M. M. Jones papers
name: label: Creator
content: Jones, Prescott M. M., 1904-1981
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Alaska)
label: Names
content: Saxild, Carl
label: Names
content: Smith, Vernon, 1894-1969
place: label: Place
content: Alaska -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1982 by James M. Norton, a friend of Jones, and after Norton's death, by his estate via his brother, Richard P. Norton.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jones, Prescott M. M., 1904-1981
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Tufts College and participated in a WPA artist project in Alaska in 1937.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jonepres
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, 2 diaries, a subject file, art works, printed material, and photographs primarily concern Jones' work for the WPA artist project in Alaska.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Twenty-six letters from friends and colleagues concern the exhibition of Jones' work and the WPA's activities in Alaska (1934-1953). The 2-volume diary was written during Jones' travels in Alaska (1937). A subject file on Jones' work in Alaska contains a letter from the Department of the Interior, a photograph of Jones, Vernon Smith, and Carl Saxild, a diary for June 1937, and a certificate. Other materials include 4 sales receipts (1937-1939), an annotated calendar (1954) and 26 photographs of Jones' works.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Twenty-seven drawings (1937-1976) and 31 sketchbooks (1937-1959) depict landscapes and townscapes in Alaska (1937) and Luzon Island in the Philippines (1945), among other subjects. One sketchbook contains notes on color theory and perspective (ca. 1953). Printed material consists of clippings (1933-1957), exhibition announcements and catalogs (1932-1973).