Jim Jones Collection
Scope and Content
Items in this collection relate to Jim Jones' personal and professional lives. Types of materials include: correspondence, photographs, personal artifacts and documents, and publications relating to Jim Jones and his art work.
Dates
- Creation: 1906-2016
Access:
Unrestricted access.
Use:
The Jim Jones Collection is the physical property of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the library for information regarding specific use of this collection.
Biographical Information
Jim Jones was born in 1933 to Elton and Thelma Jones. He began his formal training at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, then studied at the University of California-Los Angeles, finally receiving his Bachelors from the University of Utah.
He became well known for his paintings of the American Southwest, specifically of Zion and the Grand Canyon National Parks. He later built his home in Rockville, Utah, and modeled it after the old Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge.
Jones had a desire to see an art museum in Cedar City, Utah. When he died in 2009 at the age of 76 he endowed Southern Utah University with his home and his last 14 paintings. Which allowed for the creation of the Southern Utah Museum of Art.
Extent
8 linear feet : 11 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Organization reflects how items were received.
Accession Information:
Items from this collection have been donated by various sources over an extended time frame. Jim Aton donated personal papers relating to his biography of Jim Jones in 2014.
Processing Information:
This finding aid was created by the Special Collections Staff, Gerald R. Sherratt Library. If print, oversize or other materials have been removed to be stored separately it will be noted.
This collection was reprocessed by Special Collections Staff in 2025. When it was reprocessed, items were moved to appropriate sized boxes for preservation needs. While intellectual arrangement was kept in the process, physical arrangement was changed.
- Title
- Jim Jones Collection
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives Repository