Timeline
![Photograph of the Georgian home in which Quinton Oliver Jones lived and worked his entire life](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/29-Broad-Street.png)
1840
Quinton’s great-grandfather purchases 29 Broad Street.
![Sepia-toned photograph of Quinton Oliver Jones as a baby](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Baby-Quinton.png)
1903
Quinton is born.
![Old photograph of the house on Broad Street during the Great Salem Fire of 1914](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Salem-fire.jpg)
1914
Salem fire—Quinton’s father, George W. Jones, returns on the train from Boston to form a bucket brigade to save the house.
![Old photograph of Quinton Oliver Jones' father, George W. Jones](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/George-W.-Jones3.jpg)
1926
Quinton’s father dies suddenly.
![Sepia-toned photo of a gate leading into the campus of Harvard University](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Harvard.jpg)
1926
Quinton graduates from Harvard College.
![Old photograph of a carousel outside of Notre Dame in Paris](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Paris.jpg)
1928
Malcolm and Quinton travel to Europe
(London, Paris, Rome.)
![Sepia-toned photo of a sculptor carving stone with a hammer and chisel](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/sculpture.jpg)
1929-1932
Quinton attends The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he studies sculpture.
![Closeup photograph of oil painting brushes in a jar](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/oil-painting.jpg)
1939
Quinton begins oil painting.
![Three sculpted busts of children's heads titled "Orphans"](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Orphans-1024x557.jpg)
1940-1946
Quinton models the heads of orphans.
![Old photograph of Quinton Oliver Jones' mother, Mary Wells Thayer Jones](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Mary-Wells-Thayer-Jones.jpg)
1930-1946
Quinton cares for his blind, diabetic mother until her death in 1946.
![QOJ oil painting done in a Cubist style titled "Daughter of Eve"](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Daughter-of-Eve-1024x953.jpg)
1951
Quinton paints “Daughter of Eve.”
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![Surreal oil painting by QOJ titled "A Numenous Room"](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Numenous-Room-1024x800.jpg)
1974
Quinton paints “The Numenous Room.”
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![QOJ's montage-style oil painting of newspaper clippings titled "Les Annales Through Sands of Time"](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Les-Annales-Through-Sands-of-Time-1024x747.jpg)
1978
Quinton paints “Les Annales.”
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![Old photo of QOJ's sister, Helen T. Jones](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Helen-T.-Jones.jpg)
1982
Quinton’s sister Helen dies.
![Old photograph of Quinton's brother, Malcolm](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Malcolm.jpg)
1989
Quinton’s brother Malcolm dies.
![Closeup photo portrait of Quinton Oliver Jones as an older man](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/quinton-1970.jpg)
1999
Quinton dies at home.
![Photograph of the front facade of the Salem Athenaeum](https://www.quintonoliverjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Athenaeum-facade.jpg)
2017
First exhibition of Quinton’s works is presented at the Salem Athenaeum.