Coronation Coach

Location

Country: Paraguay
City: Asuncion
Place: British Embassy

Born in Croydon, Barbara Jones was a prolific artist who produced painting, printmaking, book illustration and mural designs. A student of the Royal College of Art, London (1933-37) she was influenced especially by the linear styles of Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. She was one of the first artists commissioned by The Pilgrim Trust to depict historic buildings under threat from war damage, for the ‘Recording Britain’ project in the 1940s. In 1951 she published The Unsophisticated Arts, which featured British vernacular art forms such as fairgrounds, tattooing and canal boats. This book is now a popular collector’s item. Cited by the artist, Peter Blake as a major forerunner of 1960s British Pop Art, Jones never gained the wider recognition that she deserved, although she held several important positions including Associate of the Royal Academy, and Governorship of Central School of Arts from 1956-1964.

Places

Subjects

Gold State Coach, cat, man, bucket, coronation, courtyard

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Barbara Mildred Jones (1912 - 1978)

Title

Coronation Coach

Portfolio Title

Coronation Suite

Date

1953

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal College of Art, January 1954

Inscription

below image, br: Barbara Jones

GAC number

2249