Jerry B. Jones

Jerry B. Jones of Needham, on Friday, October 14, 2022. Devoted husband of the late Rachel (Sachs) Jones; dear brother of the late Ross Jones; beloved uncle of Darren Jones, Nathan Portnoi, and the late Rebecca Cohan and cherished brother-in-law of Susan Jones. Adored grand uncle of Ben Cohan, Sarah Cohan, Garrett Jones, and Lauren Jones; and great grand uncle of Henry Jay Gathers and Gabriel Thomas LaRochelle Cohan.

A venerable architect who spent many years with The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, J. “declared victory on [his] career of nearly 30 years in architecture one day in 1995, and on the very next day began a new career as a painter” (his own words). He created grand oil paintings in high-contrast of close-up portraits of everyday things, lifting their realism into “into evocative pictorial inventions.” He wrote of his work as a painter: “Alfred North Whitehead said that ‘...art unlooses the depth of feeling from behind the frontier where the precision of consciousness fails.’ I love being part of a tradition that can touch people in this way.”

Funeral services will be held at the Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge at 10:30am on Monday October 24. At 12:30pm, a reception will follow at North Hill at 865 Central Avenue, Needham.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the MSPCA or the Cambridge Art Association.