A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations... Read full biography
A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations and foliage. He was especially influenced by the work of Hudson River painters Jasper Francis... Read full biography
A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations and foliage. He was especially influenced by the work of Hudson River painters Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Casilear, and John Frederick Kensett. He also painted an occasional still life. Johnson was born and raised in New York City, but little else is known about his early life. He studied briefly... Read full biography
A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations and foliage. He was especially influenced by the work of Hudson River painters Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Casilear, and John Frederick Kensett. He also painted an occasional still life. Johnson was born and raised in New York City, but little else is known about his early life. He studied briefly with Cropsey, but said that his best teacher was nature, which he utilized in his paintings from his frequent trips to the Hudson River Valley, especially the areas around West Point and Fort Putnam. He painted his first nature studies in 1849, and... Read full biography
A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations and foliage. He was especially influenced by the work of Hudson River painters Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Casilear, and John Frederick Kensett. He also painted an occasional still life. Johnson was born and raised in New York City, but little else is known about his early life. He studied briefly with Cropsey, but said that his best teacher was nature, which he utilized in his paintings from his frequent trips to the Hudson River Valley, especially the areas around West Point and Fort Putnam. He painted his first nature studies in 1849, and that year first received public acclaim for his work exhibited at the National Academy of Design* and the Am... Read full biography
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About David Johnson: Books
Books & Publications (110)
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Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016
Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Selections III Brock & Co.
2004
Hankin, Lisa Bush
47 pages (color)
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Palmer Museum of Art
142 pages (color)
The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery (Editor)
120 pages (color)
The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
The Florence Griswold Museum
144 pages (color)
The Cos Cob Art Colony Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
2001
Larkin, Susan G.
246 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Driscoll, John Paul
144 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper
1995
Barnhill, Georgia B
99 pages (color)
Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida
1994
Lesko, Diane, (Ed)
366 pages (color)
The Empire of the Eye Landscape and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875
1993
Miller, Angela
298 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Weber, Bruce
48 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Baekland, Frederick
160 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists
1990
Tyler, Ron
208 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists)
1989
Minks, Louise
112 pages (color)
Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art
1989
Pennington, Estill Curtis
200 pages (color)
American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Wilmerding, John
330 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1988
1988
Berry-Hill Galleries
180 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
328 pages (color)
Nature Transcribed, David Johnson The Landscapes and Still Lifes (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Herbert F Johnson Museum
87 pages (color)
American Paradise World of the Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Howat, John K
346 pages (color)
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam
99 pages (color)
American Works on Paper II (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Spanierman Gallery
144 pages (color)
American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum
1986
Muhlert, Jan K (intro)
128 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites (The Brooklyn Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ferber, Linda S.; William H. Gerdts
288 pages (color)
American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985
Spasky, Natalie
671 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
106 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Owens, Gwendolyn
111 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell
180 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest
48 pages (color)
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
1976
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy
119 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes
1976
Wadsworth Atheneum
96 pages (color)
American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bermingham, Peter
191 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Gerdts, William H
152 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Hudson River and Its Painters
1972
Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward)
207 pages (color)
19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Gerdts, William H
92 pages
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hawes, Louis
143 pages
American Art Selections Turn of the Century
1969
Chapellier Galleries
95 pages (color)
The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
74 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
American Painting from 1830
1965
Everson Museum of Art
63 pages (color)
American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Pasadena Art Museum
64 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One