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JONES, Frances Martha (Rosewarne)
- Born
- Smith Falls, ON, 1916
- Died
- Ottawa, ON, 2002
- Biography synopsis
- Printmaker Fran Jones (Rosewarne) studied at the Ontario College of Art under Franklin Carmichael, Emmanuel Hahn, Charles Comfort, and Yvonne McKague Housser. She also studied at the Artists League of New York. In Ottawa she worked for the Queens' Printer as a graphic artist and set up her own printmaking studio. She was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, exhibiting in most annual shows and was included in various international graphic exhibitions in Japan and Australia. Jones worked for the Art Section of the Department of Public Printing. She and her husband, printmaker Robert Rosewarne, ran the press, Blue R Hand Press in Ottawa. which was closed in 1965 because of a fire. They designed and printed books including, among others, Macpherson’s "Emblem Books" and "The Blur in Between" by Al Purdy (1962). She also collaborated with her husband in the Nil Press that published visual poetry and poster poems in the 1960s. In 1974 she participated in an all-women show at the Wells Gallery, a solo exhibition in 2004 centred on the publication "My Trees, My Garden/The Linocuts of Fran Jones" which was exhibited at the Carleton University Art Gallery, and in 2023 her work was included in a group show at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her work is held in the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
- Media used
- Printmaking
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art), ? - 1940 (under Frank Carmichael)
- Art Students' League, New York
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Graphic Art
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia Archives
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Anstee, Cameron. "Marginal Small Presses." 85 (DA: Devil's Artisan: A Journal of the Printing Arts." Fall/Winter 2019
- Baele, Nancy. "Visual Arts: Carleton Exhibits show what Print-making is really about." The Ottawa Citizen 15 Dec. 1996: C2
- Burant, Jim. Ottawa Art and Artists: An Illustrated History Toronto, Ontario: Art Canada Institute, 2022
http://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ottawa-art-and-artists/ - Burrett, Deborah. Lasting Impressions: The Canadian Printmakers' Showcase, 1969-1974 Ottawa: Carleton University Art Gallery, 1997
- Dingle, Allison. "My Trees, My Garden - the Linocuts of Fran Jones." Glebe Report June 18 2014:27
- Grison, Brian. Linoprints by Fran Jones CD of images of the complete holdings of Fran Jones prints, from her estate collection Ottawa, ON.: Carleton University Art Gallery, 2004
- Horne, Alan and Upjohn, Guy.. Fine Printing : the private press in Canada : a travelling exhibition organized by Alan Horne and Guy Upjohn for the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, and the Friends of the Thomas Fisher R Toronto: The Guild, 1995
- Lefebvre, Germain, Landori, Eva and Elie, Robert. Salon international de la Gravure : Montréal 1971/ International Exhibition of Graphics : Montréal 1971 Montreal, QC: Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1971
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009
- Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
- Sandiford, Judith. "Fran Jones, Printmaker." The Glebe Report 3.9 (Oct. 15,1975): 10
http://glebereport.ca/wp-content/uploads/1975/12/Glebe_Report_1975_10_15_v03_n09.pdf - Weiselberger, Carl. "City Group too Busy to be real Beatniks." Ottawa Citizen 1962
