Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Winter Apple, 1994

Roger Jones
(American, born 1941)

Location: Naches Valley Middle School, Naches

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Roger Jones created the richly detailed and whimsical landscape Winter Apple , which depicts a wolf and bird among trees still bearing fruit, even with snow on the ground.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Naches Valley School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Northwest painter and art teacher Roger Jones creates figurative, pastoral landscapes in imaginative compositions.
Jones graduated from Kennewick High School in Southeastern Washington, studied education at Central Washington State College (now Central Washington University) in Ellensburg, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1972. He has taught drawing and painting classes at Edmonds Junior High School, Bellevue Community College, Spectrum at the University of Washington, Bellevue Art Museum School, and Western Washington University in Bellingham, Northwestern Washington. He has also worked as an illustrator for Boeing.