Rebecca Field Jones (1905–2002) was an American artist who worked for the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, in ...

(WPA) and went on to found the West Hartford Art League.

Biography

Jones née Field was born in Montague, Massachusetts on March 13, 1905. She briefly attended

Massachusetts Agricultural College The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

(now the University of Massachusetts Amherst) and the Massachusetts Art School before studying in art in Munich, Germany. In 1934 she cofounded the West Hartford Art League along with Getrude Patterson Bezanker. The organization was located in red brick schoolhouse at 87 Mountain Road. From 1935 through 1938 she worked for the

Public Works of Art Project The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was a New Deal program designed to employ artists that operated from 1933 to 1934. The program was headed by Edward Bruce, under the United States Treasury Department with funding from the Civil Works Admi ...

and its successor, the Federal Arts Project. She then worked for the

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Reco ...

's drafting department. In 1941 she married fellow artist Frederic Edward Jones. She taught at the West Hartford Art League, Miss Porter's School, and the Oxford School. She was a member of the Hartford Society of Women Painters. In the 1970s Jones relocated to New Hampshire. She died on April 16, 2002 in Windsor, Vermont.

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Rebecca Field Jones
Images posted by the Connecticut State Library on Flickr {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Rebecca Field 1905 births 2002 deaths American women artists Federal Art Project artists