Louise Jones’s Wildflowers for Buffalo, 2018, at 465 Washington Street in Buffalo. Photograph by Tom Loonan.
Location: 465 Washington Street (Get Directions)
Louise Jones’s mural for The Sinclair Building, located at 465 Washington Street, draws inspiration from the structure’s original tenets: an early-twentieth-century hat manufacturer. Based on conversations with building owners, historians, and horticulturalists, Jones has incorporated aspects of period design, hatpins, and flora native to Western New York into her composition, which builds on the dynamic and often borderless floral motifs found in her public works.
Louise Jones working on her mural for 465 Washington Street. Photograph by Tom Loonan.
Louise Jones is a Detroit-based, globe-trotting artist with a robust mural practice. Jones has executed work in Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, and Shanghai, among other major international cities. Her work in Buffalo will be the largest mural of the artist’s career and the largest mural in Western New York.
This mural has been made possible through the generosity of Hodgson Russ LLP, Nottingham Advisors, and the New Era Cap Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by Hyatt’s Graphic Supply Company and the sponsors of the Summer of AK.
The Public Art Initiative was established and is supported by leadership funding from the County of Erie and the City of Buffalo.
The Albright-Knox has a number of sculptures on our campus. We invite you to explore these works anytime, whether you decide to come inside the museum or not.
