Francis Morton Johnson - Artist Info

About Francis Morton Johnson

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F Morton Johnson, Morton Johnson, Francis Morton-Johnson
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    Biography of Francis Morton JOHNSON

    Francis Morton Johnson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on May 23, 1878, and like many young American artists, left the United States to pursue his artistic education in Paris at the Academy Julian under the tutelage of Jean-Paul Laurens. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1907 and 1908, and also each year between 1908 and 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, which was interrupted between 1915 and 1919 during the second World War.

    A still life exhibited in 1908 was purchased for the national French collections, and first deposited in 1909 at the Berlioz Museum in La- Côte-Saint-André, then in the Town-Hall of this city. He notably exhibited in 1912 at the Salon ...

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