Jacobine Jones

Phyllis Jacobine Jones (1897–1976) was an English-born Canadian sculptor. She was born in England, but emigrated to Canada in 1932.

Career Jones traveled around Denmark, Italy and France with her mother for years until, at 28, she studied casting, carving, and modeling at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London with Harold Brownsword and there she won a gold medal for her animal modelling. She then studied in Italy, Denmark, and France where she exhibited at the Salon. Her figure of an equestrian St. Joan (1930) carved in Rouen stone was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and later exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, and purchased by that city for the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. She also joined the Ontario Society of Artists (1951-1956). From 1951 to 1956 she was the head of the department of sculpture at the Ontario College of Art. Art Gallery of Hamilton; University of Guelph Art Collection and other galleries and private collections. Jones' birthdate is sometimes listed as 1898, which is incorrect, and in some places her mother's last name, "Nielsen," is misspelt as "Neilsen." The fonds for the artist is available at Queen's University at Kingston Library archives.

Work

Jones' work includes: architectural sculpture for the Gore Vale Insurance building, Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario), 1934 six animal-themed bas-reliefs, including Walrus and Skunk, for the 1948 Bank of Montreal building at King & Bay Street in Toronto, plus two reliefs depicting British Columbia and Alberta. These were removed to the Guild Park and Gardens sculpture garden in 1972