Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Cow Clearing, 1993

Roger Jones
(American, born 1941)

Location: North Franklin School District, Connell

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

‘Cow Clearing’ is a figurative landscape painting by artist Roger Jones. It depicts two Holstein cows that contrast vividly against a grassy clearing. The artist notes, “My paintings are an attempt at idealizing that which usually intrigues my imagination of the natural world.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with North Franklin 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.