David Jones (artist-poet)

David Jones
Born	Walter David Jones (1895-11-01)1 November 1895 Brockley, Kent, England
Died	28 October 1974(1974-10-28) (aged 78) Harrow, England
Occupation	Poet, artist, essayist, critic
Literary movement	Modernism
Notable works	In Parenthesis (poem), The Anathemata (poem)
Notable awards	Order of the Companions of Honour

Walter David Jones CH, CBE (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was a British painter and modernist poet. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century.^[1] Jones's work gains form from his Christian faith and Welsh heritage.