Attributed to Lois Mailou Jones, African American, 1905 to 1998, acrylic painting on canvas depicting a female portrait with a tribal mask, 1956. Signed, inscribed, Haiti, and dated 56, lower right. Lois Jones is known for African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching.For more than fifty years, Lois Mailou Jones has enjoyed a consistently successful career as a painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer. Her art spans three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa, and she has been represented in more than seventy group shows and mounted twenty one woman exhibitions since 1937. Modern and Mid Century African American Fine Art, Womans Portrait Paintings, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.