Review: “Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene

January 23 through April 17, The Dixon Museum is hosting a display of paintings lithographs and murals by Joe Jones of St. Louis. Jones lived from 1909 to 1963. The exhibition displays portraits, landscapes as well as magazine covers. His style has been described as “Regionalist”- a combination of cubism, realism- with art deco thrown in for good measure. The most interesting pieces are his portraits. There is none of the distracting abstraction found in some modernist work. Reproductions of some of his murals that are at Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas and in a Missouri radio station were also on display.