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Roger Lynn Jones, Roger L. Jones.
''American artist and painter of the Pacific Northwest, born in 1941. Roger Lynn Jones, (Roger L. Jones, Roger Jones,) a notable artist of the Pacific Northwest, is an American painter born on January 29, 1941, in Ellensburg and grew up in Kennewick, in the State  of Washington.

Robin Updike, Seattle Times Art Critic described his paintings as "romantic and delicate" adding that "Jones has the talent for showing quiet details of landscapes" Love for nature, respect for the natural world, and compositions anchored in reality characterize his work. Digital copies of his paintings are posted on the artist's web site.

Childhood and education
Roger Lynn Jones grew up in a family that loved the outdoors, fishing and canoeing in the Columbia river. His grandmother, Ida May Jones, exposed him to realist bird sketches from a little book she used to help him identify bird species when he was about five years old. This early exposure to nature later influenced the style and artistic concerns of Roger Lynn Jones. It also explains in part Jones’s deep concern and appreciation for the natural habitat of the Puget Sound in particular and the Pacific Northwest in general [From Linda Hodges Gallery Artist Solo Exhibition Information, 2007]

Roger Lynn Jones received a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, WA, in 1964. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting in 1972 from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Career
From 1969 to 1978, he was a painting and drawing instructor in the Edmonds School District Edmonds, Bellevue Community College, now Bellevue College Bellevue in Washington State, Factory of Visual Arts, Seattle, WA, Spectrum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Western Washington University at the Bellevue Art Museum School, and the Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace Recreation Departments.

From 1978 to 2004, Roger Lyn Jones was an illustrator for Boeing Airplane Services in Bellevue, WA, and the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group in Everett, WA.

Several public and private collections harbor his art. They include King County and City of Seattle One-Percent for the Arts Program, City of Mountlake Terrace, U.S. Bank, Boise Art Museum, the University Hospital, Washington Arts Commission, Microsoft Corporation, and Central Washington University.

Solo Exhibitions

 * His first solo exhibition was in 1979 at the Rental/Sales Gallery of Seattle Art Museum. He went back for another solo exhibition there in 1983.
 * Sponsored by the Art Review Board, he did an exhibition at Boeing, in Everett, WA, in 1980.
 * 1981 saw his solo exhibition at the Woodside-Braseth Gallery in Seattle, WA.
 * From 1988 to 2007, he did twelve solo exhibitions at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, WA.

Group Exhibitions

 * Confluence Gallery, Twisp WA
 * 2007 "Gardens, A Living Canvas"
 * 2008 "Under the Western Sky"
 * 2003 “Animality” Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * 2000 “Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * 1999 “Washington Landscapes”, Simon Edward Gallery, Yakima, WA
 * “The View From Here”, Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
 * 1998 “The View From Here: 100 Artists Mark the Centennial of Mount Rainier National Park”, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * 1996 “Utopian Visions”, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
 * 1989 “Not Animal Not Mineral”, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
 * 1988 “Field & Stream”, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
 * 1987 “Northwest Landscape”, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * 1986 “10/40 Anniversary Celebration”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
 * 1983 “Contemporary Seattle Art”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
 * 1980 “Illusionism: Handmade”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 * 1979 “Magnificent Seven”, Kiku Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * 1974 “Small Paintings and Boxes”, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * “Realism: Seattle, Washington, USA”, Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA
 * Fifty-ninth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle, WA
 * 1973 Northwest Watercolor Show, Seattle Art Museum
 * Northwest Painting Annual, Tacoma, WA
 * Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
 * Group Drawing Show, Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, WA
 * 1972 Governor's Invitational Exhibit of Northwest Artists, Olympia, WA
 * 1971 Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle, WA

Selected Collections:

 * ArtCollTrust/Vulcan NW, Bellevue, WA
 * Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
 * City of Seattle One-Percent for the Arts
 * Harrison Memorial Hospital, Bremerton, WA
 * Harrison Hospital, Bremerton, WA
 * Good Samaritan Hospital, Seattle, WA
 * King County One-Percent for the Arts
 * Lovell Construction Company, Bremerton, WA
 * Merchant and Gould Law Firm, Seattle, WA
 * Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
 * Pacific First Federal Bank, Seattle, WA
 * Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, WA
 * Payne, Siegel Law Firm, New York, NY
 * Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
 * Walker Richer Quinn, Seattle, WA
 * Seafirst Bank, Seattle, WA
 * Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
 * Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA
 * Sirach Capital Management, Seattle, WA
 * Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
 * University Federal Bank, Seattle, WA
 * University Hospital, Seattle, WA
 * Washington State Arts Commission
 * Washington Trust Bank, Seattle, WA
 * Weyerhaeuser Corporation, Seattle, WA.

Sources, Reviews and Publications

 * 2009, Roger W. “Casey Jones Obituary” This obituary is of the father of the artist Roger Lynn Jones in Tri-City Herald. 7/26.
 * 1989 “Summer Show Features Animal Theme”, Jake Senuik, OffCenter, Vol. 2
 * 1988 “Real Art: Painters Capture City and Country in Vivid Visions, Delores Tarzan Ament, Seattle Times, 4/23
 * “Timeless Tapestry of Northwest in Paintings”, Ron Glowen, Everett Herald, 4/10
 * 1980 “Henry Art Gallery Show”, Ron Glowen, Everett Herald, 12/11
 * 1975 “Pacific Northwest Living, Polly Friedlander Collection”, Rosella Broyles,
 * Seattle Times, 11/26
 * 1974 “The Abandonment of the Succulent Pig”, R.M. Campbell, Seattle P-I, 11/1
 * 1973 “Public Art: Just Who Is It For?”, R.M. Campbell, Seattle P-I, 10/10
 * 1972 “People Are Prejudiced Against Pigs”, Susan Paynter, Seattle P-I, 12/2