Rebecca Field Jones

Jones née Field was born in Montague, Massachusetts, on March 13, 1905.^[1] She briefly attended Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst) and the Massachusetts Art School before studying in art in Munich, Germany.^[2] In 1934 she cofounded the West Hartford Art League along with Getrude Patterson Bezanker. The organization was located in red brick schoolhouse at 87 Mountain Road.^[3][4] From 1935 through 1938 she worked for the Public Works of Art Project and its successor, the Federal Arts Project. She then worked for the Public Works Administration's drafting department.^[1]

In 1941 she married fellow artist Frederic Edward Jones.^[2] She taught at the West Hartford Art League, Miss Porter's School, and the Oxford School.^[5] She was a member of the Hartford Society of Women Painters.^[1] In the 1970s Jones relocated to New Hampshire.^[2] She died on April 16, 2002, in Windsor, Vermont.^[1]

• Rebecca Field Jones Images posted by the Connecticut State Library on Flickr