Known for distinctive modernist images of African American life, William Johnson died destitute and deranged from syphilis, having spent the last twenty-three years of his life in the Central Islip... Read full biography
Known for distinctive modernist images of African American life, William Johnson died destitute and deranged from syphilis, having spent the last twenty-three years of his life in the Central Islip Sate Hospital on Long Island. He stopped painting in 1956. One of his chief sponsors and exhibitors... Read full biography
Known for distinctive modernist images of African American life, William Johnson died destitute and deranged from syphilis, having spent the last twenty-three years of his life in the Central Islip Sate Hospital on Long Island. He stopped painting in 1956. One of his chief sponsors and exhibitors for his art was the New York Harmon Foundation, which, in 1929, presented him the "Award for Distinguished Achievements Among Negroes in the Fine Arts Field." Most of his work was handed over to the... Read full biography
Known for distinctive modernist images of African American life, William Johnson died destitute and deranged from syphilis, having spent the last twenty-three years of his life in the Central Islip Sate Hospital on Long Island. He stopped painting in 1956. One of his chief sponsors and exhibitors for his art was the New York Harmon Foundation, which, in 1929, presented him the "Award for Distinguished Achievements Among Negroes in the Fine Arts Field." Most of his work was handed over to the Harmon Foundation, now defunct, by a court that deemed his works without value. In turn the Foundation donated the work to the Smithsonian Institution, which had a retrospective of his work in 1970. In 1997, a lawsuit was filed by his relatives... Read full biography
Known for distinctive modernist images of African American life, William Johnson died destitute and deranged from syphilis, having spent the last twenty-three years of his life in the Central Islip Sate Hospital on Long Island. He stopped painting in 1956. One of his chief sponsors and exhibitors for his art was the New York Harmon Foundation, which, in 1929, presented him the "Award for Distinguished Achievements Among Negroes in the Fine Arts Field." Most of his work was handed over to the Harmon Foundation, now defunct, by a court that deemed his works without value. In turn the Foundation donated the work to the Smithsonian Institution, which had a retrospective of his work in 1970. In 1997, a lawsuit was filed by his relatives claiming the Smithsonian Institution had over 1000 works on paper illegally. Source: . Matthew Baigell, D... Read full biography
William Henry Johnson - Art for Sale (3 available)
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Interior of a Ballroom
Type:Drawing
Year:1939-1942
Size:12.00" x 19.00"
Medium:Pastel
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Wax pastel on Hahnermuhle paper
signed verso
Marked with estate stamp: Tilhorer Niels Lindberg. Nr.Broby.Funen (From the collection of Neils Lindberg)
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Outdoor Girl
Type:Print
Medium:Woodcut
Notes:
1935-1938
woodcut print on cream paper
10 x 10-1/2 inches
unsigned
Pricing available upon request.
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Fisherman (No. 2)
Type:Print
Medium:Woodblock
Notes:
c. 1930-1935
woodblock print on cream paper
11 x 8 inches
unsigned
Pricing available upon request.
