Lester Frederick Johnson ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Lester Frederick Johnson: Mr. Johnson in his studio, circa 1968

1919 Minneapolis, Minnesota - 2010 Westhampton, New York. Known for: Modernist street people figure and genre painting, teaching.

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Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist brushwork lent vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive with the joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in Southampton on Long Island. His death, at a nursing home in Westhampton, N.Y., was confirmed by his son, Anthony. Mr. Johnson, a maverick associate of the Abstract Expressionists in New York, found his subject matter in the joys and sorrows of ordinary people on the street. His boxy figures of the 1960s, somberly painted in thick impasto their features often scratched into the... Read full biography

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Type:Painting

Year:1964

Size:42.00" x 30.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed

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Provenance: Estate of the Artist Private Collection, Boston (purchased from ACME Fine Art, Boston) Exhibited: James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, September 28- October 30, 2004 ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA, September 7 – October 6, 2007

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