Joe Jones
(1909-1963)

Colorado Landscape
Oil on masonite, c. 1940
30 x 36 inches
Signed
$12,000

Joe Jones was self-taught as a painter, but exhibited at the age of 24 at the Museum of Modern Art. He also exhibited at the Whitney Museum and the Colorado Fine Arts Center.

Jackson Lee Nesbitt

Charging Hot Metal
Egg tempura, 1938
12 x 8 inches
Signed and dated
$12,000

Jackson Lee Nesbitt studied at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1933 to 1941, working with Thomas Hart Benton and John de Martelly. His works were included in exhibitions at Associated American Galleries in New York in 1940. For several years, he worked for the Sheffield Steel Company in Kansas City. They wanted him to depict images of their steel operations. Charging Hot Metal shows molten steel from a holding crucible being charged into an open-hearth furnace.

Reference: Marianne Beard, Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton.