Auction Ends: Oct 26, 2011 05:00 PM EDT

Art

Large Black & White Art Photograph of Cape Ann Tool Company by listed artist Phillip Jones

Item Number: 168

Estimated Value: 1100 USD
Sold: 275 USD to marchessa

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

Courtesy of Mercury Gallery, this is a beautiful Black and White photograph of the historic, Cape Ann Tool Company in Pigeon Cove, Rockport, by acclaimed photographer, Phillip Jones. This cityscape / lanscape piece has a white matting and black frame. The art alone measures 17"w x 17"h and with matting and frame 25"w x 29"h.

The Cape Ann Tool Company, whose 100-ton drop forges had produced made-to-order parts for everything from autos to spaceships, was liquidated in 1987. It was established in the 1880s in Rockport’s Pigeon Cove section

Phillip Jones is a photographer who splits his time between Atlanta and Boston. Shoots black/ white film and color digital.

Phillip was born in 1951 in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. His father was an Academy award-winning filmmaker and his mother operated an art gallery in Dupont Circle. In high school he received a Sears Foundation scholarship and studied with Gene Davis, the Washington color school artist, for a year every Saturday. After high school, he studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Antioch College and Cooper Union. He also began exhibiting his paintings.

In 1973 he moved to New York and worked in commercial television. His short film “Secrets” won numerous awards and was exhibited at the Whitney Museum and Hirschhorn Museum. In 1979 he became a free-lance artist working both in set design for opera and medical illustration. He also continued to exhibit paintings. In 1990 they moved to Boston and Phillip began exhibiting his photographic work. He’s exhibited at the Decordova Museum, the Fuller Museum, the Lafayette Museum, the Hunter Museum, the Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Federal Reserve Gallery, the Cesium Gallery and Chatham Gallery with fourteen solo exhibits at the Mercury Gallery.