Isabel Jones

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  • Isabel
  • Eliza
  • Jones
  • Jones
  • 1870
  • Champaign, Illinois
  • 1954
  • 302 W. Church St., Champaign, Illinois [with sister Mabel (librarian)]
  • Champaign, Illinois
  • Painter, Watercolorist
  • 1891: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
    1914: BS, Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  • summer 1912: California

    winter 1913: New York
  • Array
  • 1897: Works of Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1909-1914, 1916-1919: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1913: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; [solo]

    1916: Works of Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1918: Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Artists, Peoria, Illinois

    February 27-March 27, 1977: The 52nd Annual Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
  • Kappa Alpha Theta

    Chicago Art Club, Chicago, Illinois

    1917: Chicago Artists’ Guild, Chicago, Illinois

     
  • at least 1891-1910:  Instructor of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

    1908-1909: acting head of department, Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
  • Parents:   James S. (London, Ohio July 31, 1830- between 1880 and 1900) and Eliza Houston (S. Charleston, Ohio August 1839-?) Jones; married October 15, 1868

    lawyer; prosecuting Attorney, Madison County, 1854-1855; then taught school and law in Lincoln, Illinois; returned to London, Ohio during Civil War, then to Champaign County, Illinois when he married Eliza Houston, daughter of a pioneer physician of Clark County, Ohio; 1880 listed in census as farmer

    Siblings:   Mabel (1869-?)

    Louisa (1878-?)