Shields Landon (S.L) Jones Four Figures at Table, Large Mixed Media Drawing figures with joined arms [these woven paper works] illustrate

[these woven paper works] illustrate Albers "interaction of color" in remarkable prescient form

tension closure

The box is pretty beaten up but the set seems to be pretty complete

I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham

not a fussy thing about it but with the hand of its maker very palpable

Shields Landon (S.L) Jones Four Figures at Table, Large Mixed Media Drawing figures with joined arms [these woven paper works] illustrateI wasn't familiar with the work of Shields Landon Jones (b. Indian Mills, WV 1901; died Hinton, WV 1997) when I found this and one other drawing by him (already sold) I just completely fell in love with this assembly of characters, and all that one might speculate about them! I have since learned a bit about him since, and quite an interesting artist, and human, he seems to have been. The Smithsonian Museum of Art (among many other institutions