Colored pencil on paper. 12" x 10"h with frame. Provenance: Jonathan Demme Collection, Rising Fawn Folk Art. Est. $2,000 - $4,000. Ship: $25 Jones, a black artist, never attended school or learned to read or write, and was completely self-taught. He spent some twenty years of his life in Texas prisons. At first Jones signed his work with his prison number, 114591, later he learned to print his name. Jones was “discovered” in the Prison Art Show in 1964. His work had been entered as joke by the prison guard.