Allan Dudley Jones Jrn.

Born : 1915 - Hampton, Virginia

Died : May 23, 1989 - Virginia

Married : Jean Craig

Children : Bronwyn & Dylan

AMERICAN

ARTIST

Courtesy of Henry & Kecha Kashouty ; BABA LYING IN HIS SAMADHI - ENTOMBMENT

ALLAN JONES DIED JUST BEFORE FINISHING THIS PAINTING, HIS WIFE

JEAN CRAIG HELPED TO COMPLETE IT BY ADDING COLOUR TO THE FLOWERS.

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Allan Dudley Jones was born in 1915 in Hampton, Virginia, and educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He taught art at William and Mary College, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere. He has painted several mural decorations in public buildings, and his Diorama of the Monitor and the Merrimac hangs in the Mariners' Museum of Newport News, Virginia. His works are also owned by the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Norfolk, Virginia, the High Museum of Atlanta, Georgia, and other institutions.

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