internet detective

So, I own these paintings.



I bought them at a thrift store a few years ago, and I've always really liked them. Lately I've been curious about the painter, Elizabeth Mize Jones, so I did a little digging. I managed to turn up a phone number for what I thought was her son, in the same town in Kansas where she's buried.

Well, I just got off the phone with him. He is apparently 77 years old, still lives in Kansas, and was very surprised and pleased to hear from me. We both wondered how the paintings had made their way from Kansas to Maryland. His mother died in 1953, so my paintings are probably from the forties.

He told me that in addition to painting, she made hooked rugs that won prizes at the Kansas state fair. He also told me that she turned his grandfather's Spanish-American War uniform into a hooked rug, and he'd never quite gotten over it. I'm sending him pictures of the paintings as soon as I can get good color printouts made.

I love knowing the history of my stuff.