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Fay Jones (artist)

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Fay Jones (born 1936, birth name Fay Bailey) is an American artist, based in Seattle, Washington. A large number of her works are exhibited in public places in the Pacific Northwest, including a mural in the Westlake Station of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and a painting in Seattle's opera house, McCaw Hall. A 1986 retrospective organized by the Boise Art Museum also showed at the Seattle Art Museum.[1]

Early life

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In 1953, she graduated from high school and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[1] In 1956, she met RISD drawing instructor Robert C. Jones (b. 1930); they married the following year, and moved to Seattle in 1960, where Robert Jones became a member of the art faculty of the University of Washington. They had four children, born between 1958 and 1966.

Career

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She had her first exhibit in 1970 at the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle.[1] In the mid-1980s, she was selected, along with Roger Shimomura and Gene Gentry McMahon to design major murals for the Westlake Station of the new Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel. A 1996 retrospective organized by the Boise Art Museum[2] also showed at the Seattle Art Museum and at the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Washington.[1]

She illustrated one card (Stasis) for the debut set of the soon-to-be-famous Magic: The Gathering trading card game as a favor for her nephew, the game's designer Richard Garfield.[3]

In 2006, Jones and her husband had a joint show at the Casa Museo Gene Byron in Guanajuato. They maintain a primary residence in West Seattle.[1]

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Seattle Art Museum.[4]

Awards

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  • 2013 - Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant[5]
  • 2006 - Seattle Art Museum’s Poncho Artist of the Year award[5]
  • 1983 and 1990 - grants from the NEA[5]
  • 1984 - Washington State Arts Commission[5]
  • 1989 - La Napoli Art Foundation[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Regina Hackett and Sondra Shulman, Fay Jones: A 20 Year Retrospective : Boise Art Museum August 31-October 27, 1996 (catalog), University of Washington Press (January 1997), ISBN 0295975881.
  2. ^ Rosewater, Mark (June 20, 2016). "25 More Random Things About Magic". Magic the Gathering. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  3. ^ "Fay Jones – Artists – eMuseum".
  4. ^ a b c d e "Fay Jones - Artists - Laura Russo Gallery | Portland | Oregon | Contemporary Art". www.laurarusso.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-03-06.