Jones, Nell Choate
(1879-1981)
“Still Life ”

Artist Biography

Nell Choate Jones was born in Hawkinsville, GA. She studied at Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York, England and France, painting impressionist landscapes in Fontainebleau, painting in New Mexico of Pueblos and other Native American subjects. In 1936, in Georgia, painted expressionist works of black men and women. In NYC, she was President of both the American Society of Contemporary Artists and National Association of Women Artists. Personally and in her art, Jones was responsive to the problems of women as artists and in society. Her work was included in a 1999 exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art of the University of Georgia, Athens: Before 1948: American Paintings from Georgia Collections.