Lois Mailou Jones

Lois Mailou Jones was an American painter. In 1931 she painted Brother Brown (painting); It is now in Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Early life.
She was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1905, to Thomas Vreeland and Carolyn Jones. Her father was a building (or manager) who later became a lawyer; He was the first African-American to get a law degree from Suffolk University Law School. Her mother worked as a cosmetologist.
Jones died in 1998.