Twentieth-century Australian portrait painter
Marion Jones (1892–1977) was an Australian portrait painter born in Bendigo, Victoria.
Training.
Jones attended Girton in Bendigo for her secondary education. Enrolled at the School of Mines she studied art with instructor Arthur Woodward who also taught Inez Abbott, George H. Allen, Tom Bone, Ola Cohn, Madge Freeman, Agnes Goodsir, Norman Penrose, Louise Riggall, Elma Roach, Mary Shiress and John Walker. 
Marion then studied 1912–1917 at the National Gallery of Victoria schools in Melbourne, winning its Travelling Scholarship in 1917. Delayed because of WWI in taking up her scholarship she exhibited her work in Australia before moving to London in 1921.
Portraitist.
Marion presented her "Cui Bono" under the terms of the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship in 1924 and it is held in the collection An article in "The Australian Home" of 10 July 1925, which displayed her photograph on its cover, records that the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923... ...and was highly commended upon by the London press, caricatured by London "Punch" and was mentioned in the novel "Penelope" by S. P. B. Mais. It was also reproduced in color by the "Tatler" (London).Joan Kerr proposes that "Cui Bono," depicting a ballerina in a tutu outstretched on a bench, apparently in distress as hinted by the pearl necklace spilling from her hand, is a 'problem picture'. 
Seven of Jones' portraits are held in the Bendigo Art Gallery, including one of its treasurer John F. Warren, painted in 1918.
Europe.
Jones achieved some success in the London Portrait Society, the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon in 1923, and the Royal Scottish Academy. She exhibited with the 23 June 1924 "Exhibition of Australian Art", with Abby (Abraham) Alston, David Baker, Leslie Bowles, Penleigh Boyd, Rupert Bunny, Isaac M. Cohen, Charles Conder, George James Coates, Ethel Carrick-Fox, Bessie Davidson, Roy De Maistre, E. Phillips Fox, Madge Freeman, Bessie Gibson, Agnes Goodsir, Elioth Gruner, Clewin Harcourt, Hans Heysen, W.A. Kermode, George Lambert, Fred Leist, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, W. Lister, Dora Meeson, Harold Parker, Adelaide Perry, H. A. Power, James Quinn, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Arthur Streeton, and Laurence B. Tayler at the Royal College of Arts gallery, London. Jones was popular in London society, and received numerous commissions for portraiture, including for several notable figures, Prime Minister Billy Hughes being one.
Australia.
Returned to Australia in the late 1920s Jones exhibited with the Victoria Artists’ Society and was a finalist in the 1925 Archibald Prize with her portraits "AJ Litchfield, Esq.", "Miss G Alice Jones", "Mrs Frank Hewson", "Sir Keith Smith" and two self-portraits.
Jones abandoned her art-making completely in the mid-1930s. She died in Melbourne in 1977.
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