Angela Swanson Jones graduated from Brigham Young University and holds a master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. She has published articles in Fine Art Connoisseur and co-authored three books: The Desperate Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties (ACC Art Books, 2020); Dictionary of Utah Fine Artists (Gibbs Smith Publishers, 2022); and the forthcoming biography John Hafen: Utah’s Aesthetic Conscience (Gibbs Smith Publishers, 2024). Her other research interests include 19th- and 20th-century realist religious art, and she is currently preparing a biography and catalogue raisonné of the German painter Heinrich Hofmann (1824–1911).