Rebecca Field Jones was born Rebecca Field in Montague, Massachusetts on March 13, 1905. She graduated from Turner Falls High School in 1923 and attended Massachusetts State College for one year. She then spent a year or more studying in a private studio in Munich, Germany. In 1933 Jones co-founded the West Hartford Art League and Art Center where she later taught. She worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from its inception in 1935 until 1938. She created 39 works in a variety of media including oils, watercolors, wood, plaster, wire, and wax. She also prepared exhibits for the Children’s Museum in Hartford. In 1938 Jones left the WPA to join the PWA drafting department. That same year she was elected president of the Arts and Crafts Club of Hartford. In 1941 she wed Frederic Edward Jones, a well known sculptor from Farmington. Later in that same year she joined the staff of Oxford School as an instructor in graphic arts and crafts, as well as history and art. Around this same period she was a committee member of the Hartford Society of Women Painters. She eventually taught sculpture at Miss Porter’s school until 1968. Jones died in Windsor, Vermont on April 16, 2002, at the age of 97.

 Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; “West Hartford Art League Celebrates 40th Anniversary, Hartford Courant, April 7, 1974; Obituary,Hartford Courant, April 21, 2002.