Music like Joe Jones

Joseph John Jones (1909–1963) was an American painter, landscape painter, lithographer, and muralist. TIME magazine followed him throughout his career. Although Jones was never a member of the John Reed Club, his name is closely associated with its artistic members, most of them also contributors to the New Masses magazine.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7, 1909. Self-taught, he quit school at age fifteen to work as a house painter, his father's profession.

Father of Peter Jones, Timothy Jones, Katie Jones Allen and Reverend James Jones. Grandfather of Lobbyist Jonathon Jones, Susannah Hooker, Brooke Jones, Jodi Jones Miller, Allison Jones Arcangel, Stephanie Jones, Timothy J. Jones, Kasey Errico, Jennifer Allen Flynn, Elizabeth Grace Jones Knier and Katharine Jones. Great Grandfather of Wells, Lawton, and Olivia Jones, Mariah and Christopher Miller, Jonathan and Nicholas Arcangel, and Daniel and Kalli Errico.