Marion Jones (1892–1977) was an Australian portrait painter born in Bendigo, Victoria.
Training
editJones attended Girton in Bendigo for her secondary education. Enrolled at the School of Mines she studied art with instructor Arthur Woodward who also taught Inez Abbott, George H. Allen, Tom Bone, Ola Cohn, Madge Freeman, Agnes Goodsir, Norman Penrose, Louise Riggall, Elma Roach, Mary Shiress and John Walker.[1]
Marion then studied 1912–1917 at the National Gallery of Victoria schools in Melbourne, winning its Travelling Scholarship in 1917. Delayed because of WWI in taking up her scholarship she exhibited her work in Australia before moving to London in 1921.[2]
Portraitist
editMarion presented her Cui Bono under the terms of the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship in 1924 and it is held in the collection[3] An article in The Australian Home of 10 July 1925, which displayed her photograph on its cover, records that the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923...
...and was highly commended upon by the London press, caricatured by London Punch and was mentioned in the novel Penelope by S. P. B. Mais. It was also reproduced in color by the Tatler (London).[4]
Joan Kerr proposes that Cui Bono, depicting a ballerina in a tutu outstretched on a bench, apparently in distress as hinted by the pearl necklace spilling from her hand, is a 'problem picture'.[5]
Seven of Jones' portraits are held in the Bendigo Art Gallery, including one of its treasurer John F. Warren, painted in 1918.[6]
Europe
editJones achieved some success in the London Portrait Society, the Royal Academy[7] and the Paris Salon in 1923, and the Royal Scottish Academy. She exhibited with the 23 June 1924 Exhibition of Australian Art, with Abby (Abraham) Alston, David Baker, Leslie Bowles, Penleigh Boyd, Rupert Bunny, Isaac M. Cohen, Charles Conder, George James Coates, Ethel Carrick-Fox, Bessie Davidson, Roy De Maistre, E. Phillips Fox, Madge Freeman, Bessie Gibson, Agnes Goodsir, Elioth Gruner, Clewin Harcourt, Hans Heysen, W.A. Kermode, George Lambert, Fred Leist, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, W. Lister, Dora Meeson, Harold Parker, Adelaide Perry, H. A. Power, James Quinn, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Arthur Streeton, and Laurence B. Tayler at the Royal College of Arts gallery, London.[8] Jones was popular in London society, and received numerous commissions for portraiture, including for several notable figures, Prime Minister Billy Hughes being one.[2]
Australia
editReturned to Australia in the late 1920s Jones exhibited with the Victoria Artists’ Society and was a finalist in the 1925 Archibald Prize with her portraits AJ Litchfield, Esq., Miss G Alice Jones, Mrs Frank Hewson, Sir Keith Smith and two self-portraits.[9]
Jones abandoned her art-making completely in the mid-1930s.[2] She died in Melbourne in 1977.
Collections
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Life of Melbourne". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 29, 096. Victoria, Australia. 23 November 1939. p. 6. Retrieved 23 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b c McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (4th ed.). Fitzroy: AUS Art Editions; Miegunyah Press. p. 559. ISBN 0-522-85317-X. OCLC 80568976.
- ^ a b Jones, Marion (1922). "Cui Bono". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "My Lady's Hobby". The Australian home. 32 (908): cover, 18. 10 July 1925 – via TROVE.
- ^ Kerr, Joan (1995). "Marion Jones b. 1892 : Artist (Painter)". Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 23 November 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Jones, Marion; Bendigo Art Gallery (23 November 1923). "Bendigo Art Gallery Collection : Jones, Marion". Bendigo Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS". Sunday Times. No. 2015. New South Wales, Australia. 14 September 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 23 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS". Sunday Times. No. 2015. New South Wales, Australia. 14 September 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 23 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Past works and winners : Archibald Prize 1925". Art Gallery of New South Wales. 23 November 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ "Marion Jones (b.1897, d.1977)". Castlemaine Art Museum. 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
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