biography of Douglas MCKEE JONES (1929)

Birth place: Sewell, Chile

Addresses: La Jolla, CA

Profession: Painter, art dealer

Studied: San Diego Fine Arts & Crafts; San Diego State College; Los Angeles AC College Design (grad.); special study with Lorser Feitelson, Audubon Tyler, Leon Franks & Sergei Bongart.

Work: Commissions: portraits of Mayor Charles Dail, San Diego & Mayor Kiyoshi Nakarai, Yokahama, commissioned by San Diego Chapter, Am. Inst. Architects, 1963; 33 portraits, Int. Aerospace Hall of Fame, San Diego, 1964-72; portrait of Gen. Claire Chenault, Flying Tigers Assn., 1971; portrait of Mrs. Marie Winzer, addition to Scripps Hospital.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, pastels. Positions: owner/dir., The Jones Gal., 1964-. Specialty of gallery: paintings, sculpture and ceramics by 19th & 20th century Am. artists.