Déjà Vu
Fay Jones, Déjà Vu, 1982, acrylic on paper, Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund, © Fay Jones, 85.42
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- Title
Déjà Vu
- Artist
- Date
1982
- Medium
acrylic on paper
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
71 in x 74 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature/maker's mark: bottom middle of painting: F. Jones '82
inscription: Label on back: Francine Seders Gallery $2800, The Fountain Gallery, $2800
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Helen Thurston Ayer Fund
- Accession Number
85.42
- Copyright
© Fay Jones
- Terms
Though she received her art training in the late 1950s during the highpoint for abstraction in American painting, Fay Jones has always preferred to pursue figuration and narrative content. Jones was born in Boston and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. She moved to Seattle after graduating in 1957. Fay Jones's works present vivid, engaging, though ultimately unfinished, stories drawn from contemporary American life and social issues. They are full of lively, enigmatic characters, odd juxtapositions and suggestive, ambiguous images and symbols. Jones structures her compositions around cartoon-like drawings and intense colors; they display her flair for theatrical effect and a wry, knowing sense of humor.