Art Collector and Benefactor
Jones was also a trustee and benefactor of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, to which he gave a collection of 5,300 prints. (The New York Times claims there were 5,852 prints valued at $700,000.)
From 1914 to 1917 he sponsored Minnesota artist Wanda Gág's instruction at the Minneapolis School of Art.
In 1920, Jones sold his collection of modern etchings and started to collect etchings by old masters, including Rembrandt's Lucretia, and El Greco's Portrait of a Nobleman, which he bought in 1926 for $75,000.
In his estate, he left trust funds to the Minnesota Historical Society and the library of the University of Minnesota.
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