Josephine Joy

Magnolia Blossoms

Oil on canvas

36 1/8 x 40 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1941 

Aloes

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1938

Waterbirds Nesting

Oil on canvas

29 7/8 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Trysting at Evening

Oil on fiberboard

29 3/4 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

San Diego Mission

Oil on fiberboard

39 3/4 x 48"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Prisoner's Plea

Oil on fiberboard

23 7/8 x 28"

Ca. 1935 - 1937

Moufflon - Bobtailed Sheep

Oil on canvas

30 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Irish Cottage

Oil on canvas

31 x 36 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1938

CCC Camp Balboa Park

Oil on canvas

18 1/8 x 24"

Ca. 1933 - 1937

Biographical information from the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Josephine Hiett Joy was born near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1869 and soon thereafter her family moved to Peoria, Illinois. After an early marriage that ended in divorce, she went to Chicago and subsequently married Frank Joy. She became interested in painting after they moved to San Diego. A prolific worker, she became a WPA artist in the late 1930s, which led to her first solo exhibition at the St. Etienne Gallery in New York City in 1943. Joy died in Peoria in 1948.