Untitled c. 1940

This untitled print was made by Eugene Arthur Jones with etching. It’s all done in thin black lines, kind of scratchy and raw, like he was carving directly into the plate and letting the image emerge. You can sense Jones working through his ideas. It's like he's trying to make a map of his mind. The composition is densely packed with figures, landscapes, and geometric shapes. It has a dreamlike quality, as if you are in a world that follows a logic of its own. I imagine him experimenting, figuring things out as he went along, adding one element and then another. You see the influence of Cubism and Surrealism but you can feel that Jones has found his voice. His imagery is very personal and intuitive. It invites you to contemplate the relationship between inner visions and outer reality. Like all artists, he's in conversation with the work of the past, filtering it through his unique vision and experiences. This print reminds us that art is a continuous dialogue across generations.