Alfred Garth Jones

Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour.

The March 1901 edition of The Poster and Art Collector publication[6] included an article entitled "Some Remarks on the Work of Alfred Garth Jones" (by The Editor).

This describes how Jones continued his training by attending the Slade School of Fine Art as a pupil of Professor Fred Brown.

The census forms in the United Kingdom were then required to be completed by the head of the household, for that individual address, and this document bears the name and signature "Alfred Garth Jones".

Jones' illustrations were used in several notable publications around the start of the 20th century, including works by Tennyson, H. G. Wells, John Milton, Conan Doyle and Carmen Sylva.

In 1894, the first examples of Jones' illustrations appeared in "The Tournament of Love" by William Theodore Peters and "Fairy Tales from Classic Myths for boys and girls" by Charles H Smith.

During this period, along with Albert Angus Turbayne, he was of assistance to a number of Canadian book design artists who had joined Carlton in order to improve their skills.

In America, his illustrations for Henry van Dyke's short stories the Half-Told Tales appeared in the January to June 1912 issue of Scribner's Magazine.

[13] In October 1912, Charles Scribner's Sons published the first edition of Van Dyke's The Unknown Quantity, with artwork by various illustrators, of which Garth Jones was one.

Scribner's Magazine for July to December 1925[15] showed Jones' work for an entry entitled The Two Selves by Elsa Barker (1869–1954), an American novelist and poet, born in Leicester, Vermont.

In 1943, Alfred wrote a letter from an address in Chadwell Heath, Essex to his younger brother Ernest on the subject of his nephew Philip's death in a flying accident whilst training pilots in the United States.

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From Tennyson's In Memoriam. 'And linger weeping on the marge'.