Albertus Eugene Jones

Albertus Eugene JONES
(1882-1957)
“Rolling Hills of Granville”
(titled verso)
oil on canvas, 25" x 30"
signed lower right, “Albertus E. Jones”

“Old House by the Pool”
(titled verso)
oil on canvas, 25" x 34"
signed lower left, “Albertus E. Jones”

Albertus Jones lived in South Windsor and Hamburg Cove, Connecticut. He was a highly regarded landscape painter and WPA artist who studied with Charles Noel Flagg and at the Connecticut League of Art Students. Jones himself was a teacher at the Randall School and the School for Creative Work, both in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jones exhibited and received prizes at the Connecticut Association of Fine Artists shows beginning in 1912 through 1934. He also took prizes for his work at the Connecticut Watercolor Society in 1939, 1941, 1943, and 1944, at the Bridgeport Art League in 1944, the New Hampshire Paint and Clay Club in 1945, and at the Wadsworth Atheneum.