Lois Mailou Jones

**Lois Mailou Jones** ( bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni  1905 ka o daa kpi yuuni 1998) o daa nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumdi mini chicha. O tuma nim nyɛla din ni tooi nyɛ shɛŋa yaɣa kamani,  Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, din nyɛ National Museum of Women in the Arts, din lahi nyɛ  Brooklyn Museum, din gba nyɛ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, n ti pahi The Phillips Collection. O nyɛla ŋun chaŋ ti kpini  Harlem Renaissance.

## O piligu ha bɛhigu ni o shikuru chandi
Jones nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tinŋyuli booni  Boston,  n be Massachusetts, ka o laanbi nyɛ Thomas Vreeland Jones mini Carolyn Adams. O ba nyɛla ŋun daa be mɛbu mɛbu tooni ka daa lahi lebi looya, n nyɛ tuuli gbansabinli ŋun deegi looya tali tuma shɛhira gbaŋ din yuli booni ( law degree ) shikuru yuli booni Suffolk Law School. ka o ma mi tumdi  cosmetologist tuma.  Jones's laambi nyɛla ban daa kuli kpaŋri o ni peentim ni bɛ ni bɔli binshɛli ni watercolors la,  tum o bilimni. O laanbi nyɛla ban daa mɛ yili n zaŋ o kuli tiŋyuli booni Martha's Vineyard, ni ka  Jones daa nyɛ ban kpaŋsi o ka o ti tumdi lala o nucheeni tuma maa,  bɛ shɛbi n daa nyɛ sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, composer Harry T. Burleigh,  n ti pahi novelist Dorothy West.

## Kpaŋmaŋ pini
* Robert Woods Bliss Award for Landscape for *Indian Shops Gay Head, Massachusetts* (1941)
* Atlanta University award for watercolor painting *Old House Near Frederick, Virginia* (1942)
* *Woman of 1946* award from the National Council of Negro Women (1946)
* John Hope Prize for Landscape for *Ville d'Houdain, Pas-de-Calais* and award from the Corcoran Gallery of Art for *Petite Ville en hautes-Pyrenées* (1949)
* Atlanta University award for *Impasse de l'Oratorie, Grasse, France* (1952)
* Oil painting award from&nbsp;the Corcoran Gallery of Art *Coin de la Place Maubert, Paris*&nbsp;(1953)
* Chevalier of the National Order of Honor and Merit from the government of Haiti. (1954)
* Award for design of publication *Voici Hätii* (1958)
* Atlanta University award for *Voodoo Worshippers, Haiti* and America's National Museum of Art award for *Fishing Smacks, Menemsha, Massachusetts* (1960)
* Elected person of The Royal Society of Arts in London. Received the Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for *Peasants on Parade* (1962)
* Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State University (1973)
* Howard University Fine Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (1975)
* Honored by President Ronald Reagan at the White House for outstanding achievements in the arts (1980).
* Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Suffolk University in Boston (1981)
* Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1982)
* *3rd Annual Art Awards,* Washington, DC (1983)
* Lois Jones Day, Washington, DC (July 29, 1987)
* *Outstanding Achievement Award in the Visual Arts,* Women's Caucus of Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY (1986)
* Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (1986)
* Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from&nbsp;Howard University (1987)
* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The Atlanta College of Art (1989)
* Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran School of Art (1996)

## Selected collections
* *Men Working,* not dated, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Negro Youth*, 1929, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *[[Brother Brown (painting)|Brother Brown]]*, 1931, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *[[Les Fétiches]]*, 1938, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Place du Tertre*,&nbsp;1938, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
* *Dans un Café à Paris (Leigh Whipper)*, 1939, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
* *Seated Man in Yellow Overalls*, 1939, Smithsonian American art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Cauliflower and Pumpkin*, 1938, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
* *Self-Portrait*, 1940, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Les Clochards, Montmartre, Paris*, 1947, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Coin de la Rue Medard*,&nbsp;1947, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
* *Jardin du Luxembourg*, ca. 1948, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées,&nbsp;1949, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
* *Mme. Feugeront à Cabris, AM*, 1950, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
* *Jeune Fille Française*, 1951, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Eglise Saint Joseph,* 1954, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Shapes and Colors*, 1958, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Challenge—America,* 1964, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
* *Moon Masque*, 1971, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Ode&nbsp;to Kinshasa*, 1972, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
* *Ubi Girl from Tai Region*, 1972, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
* *La Baker*, 1977, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
* *The Green Door*, 1981, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
* *Suriname*, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* *Glyphs*, 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
* *Untitled (Portrait of [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]])*, 1996, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

## Selected exhibitions
* Solo exhibition, 1937, Howard University, Washington, D.C., sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
* Solo exhibition, 1946, Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC
* Solo exhibition, 1947, Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
* Solo exhibition, 1948, Whyte Gallery and Howard University, Washington, DC
* Solo exhibition, 1955, Pan American Union Building, Washington, DC
* Solo exhibition, 1961, Galerie International, New York, NY
* Solo exhibition, 1966, Galerie Soulanges, Paris, France
* Solo exhibition, 1967, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
* *Forty Years of Painting*, 1972, Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
* *Reflective Moments*, 1973–1974, MFA, Boston, Boston, MA
* *Six Distinguished Women Artists,* 1976, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
* Solo exhibition, 1979, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
* *The World of&nbsp;*Loïs&nbsp;*Mailou Jones*, 1990–1996, The Meridian International Center, Toured throughout the nation
* *The Art of&nbsp;*Loïs&nbsp;*Mailou Jones*, 1991–1993, Bomani Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* *The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones*, 1994, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
* *Loïs&nbsp;Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927–1937*, 2006, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
* *Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color*, 2009–2010, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
* *Full Spectrum: The Prolific Master within Loïs Mailou Jones,* 2014–2015, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Partnership with the Loïs Mailou Jones Trust, The I Street Gallery, Washington, DC
* *The Life and Work of Lois Mailou Jones,* 2015, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA

## Kundivihira

## Karim pahi
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* Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes. "Jones, Lois Mailou. November 3, 1095-June 9, 1998."
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* Rowell, Charles Henry (2016). "Loïs Mailou Jones." *Callaloo*, vol. 39 no. 5, 2016, p.&nbsp;1017-1101. *Project MUSE*, doi:10.1353/cal.2016.0142. 
* Seamon, Donna (2017). *Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.* New York: Bloomsbury USA.
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* Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy Lorraine (2004). "Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century". Harvard University Press, 1st edition. .

## External links

* Archive of Official website
* "An Interview with Lois Mailou Jones", Charles H. Rowell, *Callaloo*, Vol. 12 No. 2, p.&nbsp;357–378
* Baltimore Museum of Art. *[http://cdm16075.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15264coll3/id/74 Contemporary Negro Art: On Exhibition from February 3–19, 1939, the Baltimore Museum of Art]*. [Baltimore]: [The Baltimore Museum of Art], 1939.
* Lois Mailou Jones papers, memorabilia, and archives from Howard University
* Lois Mailou Jones  on the African American Visual Artists Database
* Artist Friendships: Loïs Mailou Jones and Céline Tabary from National Museum of Women in the Arts blog
* Unsung History Podcast,  Lois Mailou Jones, December 6, 2012