Jones nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tinŋyuli booni Boston, n be Massachusetts,[2][3] ka o laanbi nyɛ Thomas Vreeland Jones mini Carolyn Adams. O ba nyɛla ŋun daa be mɛbu mɛbu tooni ka daa lahi lebi looya, n nyɛ tuuli gbansabinli ŋun deegi looya tali tuma shɛhira gbaŋ din yuli booni ( law degree ) shikuru yuli booni Suffolk Law School.[4] ka o ma mi tumdi cosmetologist tuma. [5] Jones's laambi nyɛla ban daa kuli kpaŋri o ni peentim ni bɛ ni bɔli binshɛli ni watercolors la, tum o bilimni. O laanbi nyɛla ban daa mɛ yili n zaŋ o kuli tiŋyuli booni Martha's Vineyard, ni ka Jones daa nyɛ ban kpaŋsi o ka o ti tumdi lala o nucheeni tuma maa, bɛ shɛbi n daa nyɛ sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, composer Harry T. Burleigh, n ti pahi novelist Dorothy West.[6]
Atlanta University award for Impasse de l'Oratorie, Grasse, France (1952)
Oil painting award from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Coin de la Place Maubert, Paris (1953)[8]
Chevalier of the National Order of Honor and Merit from the government of Haiti. (1954)[8]
Award for design of publication Voici Hätii (1958)[8]
Atlanta University award for Voodoo Worshippers, Haiti and America's National Museum of Art award for Fishing Smacks, Menemsha, Massachusetts (1960)[8]
Elected person of The Royal Society of Arts in London. Received the Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for Peasants on Parade (1962)[8]
Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State University (1973)[8]
Howard University Fine Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (1975)[8]
Six Distinguished Women Artists, 1976, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY[7]
Solo exhibition, 1979, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC[7]
The World of Loïs Mailou Jones, 1990–1996, The Meridian International Center, Toured throughout the nation[7]
The Art of Loïs Mailou Jones, 1991–1993, Bomani Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA[36]
The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones, 1994, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC[7]
Loïs Mailou Jones: The Early Works: Paintings and Patterns 1927–1937, 2006, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA[7]
Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, 2009–2010, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC[37]
Full Spectrum: The Prolific Master within Loïs Mailou Jones, 2014–2015, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Partnership with the Loïs Mailou Jones Trust, The I Street Gallery, Washington, DC[38]
The Life and Work of Lois Mailou Jones, 2015, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA[39]
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Martin, Elizabeth (1997). Female Gazes:Seventy-Five Women Artists. Toronto: Second Story Press.
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VanDiver, Rebecca (2020). Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN978-0-271-08604-0.
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