Though most known for her watercolors, like Sandy Acre which is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Jones also did illustration work for magazines and books.

[9] In 1920, she married David Blair Jones[7] and continued her studies in Woodstock with Cecil Chichester; with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Wayman Adams at Elizabethtown, New York; and Anthony di Bona at Saranac Lake.

In 1937, she submitted a triptych, St. Regis Reservation, for one of the Treasury Department's completions and on the basis of the entry was awarded the contract for the post office of Winsted, Connecticut.

Warring factions wanted it placed in the east or west sides of town, and sent countless protests to Washington, forcing President Lincoln to send an envoy to settle the dispute.

[15] That same year, her watercolor, Saranac River was invited for the Art Institute of Chicago's show and a 1940 oil painting When Work is Done was included in an exhibit at the Smithsonian.

[3] Jones continued painting and exhibiting in both the U.S. and abroad, traveling to several cities in Italy,[17] as well as holding one-woman shows in London and Paris.

[17][19] Jones' first husband died in 1955[20] and the following year, she was the only female artist profiled in Norman Kent's book Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor.

[6][23] In the Vietnam Era, Jones completed works for the United States Army Art Program depicting medical services provided by the military.

In WAF Surgical Technician—Orlando (1965), a woman, who is a hospital technician at the Orlando Air Force Base, is making medication rounds with a male orderly.