Seattle's Public Art

Robert C. Jones was born in West Hartford, CT, in 1930. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA (1953) and an MS (1959). In 1963, Jones moved to Seattle with his wife, painter Fay Jones, to join the faculty of the University of Washington School of Art. He retired in 2001. Jones' large abstract oil paintings often invoke a sense of background landscape, with foreground figures and shapes drawn as simple curves. His canvases are heavily layered. White and black are often primary, with vivid colors providing the impression of light and shade. Robert Jones' work has been included in over 40 solo and group exhibitions, and is part of a number of public and corporate collections. His paintings have been shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Jones was the recipient of a 2003/2004 Flintridge Foundation award for west coast artists "whose work demonstrates high artistic merit and a distinctive voice for 20 or more years." Produced for the Seattle Channel by John Forsen with support from the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.