Frank A. Jones
Untitled

Overall recto.
Untitled
Overall recto.
ArtistAmerican, 1900–1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
Datec. 1964-1969
MediumColored pencil on wove paper mounted on board
DimensionsSheet: 8 5/8 × 11 in. (21.9 × 28 cm)
 Board: 13 15/16 × 19 7/8 × 5/8 in. (35.4 × 50.5 × 1.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of David Adams in memory of Dovie Steed Adams
Object number2022.748
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, c. mid- to late 1960s; collection of Dovie Steed Adams; by descent to David Adams, to 2022; gifted to MFAH, 2022. (1)

(1). According to donor David Adams, his mother, Dovie Steed Adams, was a longtime employee of a district attorney’s office, and an associate who had connections within the prison where Frank Jones lived gave her the drawing.

Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in blue colored pencil, center bottom edge: JONES SANK A 114591
Recto: Inscribed in blue ink, left top edge: Frank Jones / 114591 [upside down]
Verso: [inaccessible]
None known
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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