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Megan Hart Jones
1966 - 1987
“Shells & Flowers”
First Edition - 7/100, 1981
The etching was created at the …
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Megan Hart Jones
1966 - 1987
“Shells & Flowers”
First Edition - 7/100, 1981
The etching was created at the university of California, irvine, and printed by her father John Paul Jones
Approximate Dimensions: Framed W 17.5 x H16.5 inch
Sight W 12 x H 11 inch
Framed in museum quality non reflective glass.
Signed and numbered to bottom left
A Limited edition etching displays a grid-based etching featuring natural elements if shells, snail, leaves and flowers, with a delicate, scrupulously rendered details.
The style resembles an older natural history illustration or botanical study, presented in a gridded format for organization or artistic effect.
Daughter of the artist, John Paul Jones, Megan Hart Jones (1966-1987) was a local artist who attended Laguna Beach High School and graduated from Laguna Beach College of Art in 1985. She was twenty years old when she passed away, the victim of a rare form of cancer that invades the adrenal glands in the kidneys.
Even while struggling with cancer, Megan Hart Jones of South Laguna could not pass a day without drawing or painting.
John Paul Jones – the visual artist, was big in the 1950s and ’60s, known for being one of America’s foremost printmakers. He founded the printmaking program at UCLA in 1953, and did the same for UC Irvine in 1969. He had dozens of solo exhibitions during his career, including a critical one at the Brooklyn Museum in 1963. Time magazine did an illustrated feature on him in 1962.
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- Dimensions
- 17.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 16.5ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Still Life
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Excellent condition Faint scratches Refer photos for details Excellent condition Faint scratches Refer photos for details less
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