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 - Artist Info
About William Henry Johnson: Books
Books & Publications (42)
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Cezanne and American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf
372 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
How to Draw New York's Sights and Symbols
2002
Fein, E.
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998
Taha, Halima
270 pages (color)
William H. Johnson Truth Be Told
1998
Turner, S. and Dailey, V.
200 pages (color)
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997
Powell, Richard J
256 pages (color)
St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997
Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)
625 pages
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
African American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
San Antonio Museum of Art
67 pages (color)
A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993
Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson
542 pages (color)
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993
Perry, Regina A
203 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
Homecoming The Life and Art of William H Johnson (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Powell, Richard J/M Puryear
255 pages (color)
Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940
1989
Gambone, Robert L
286 pages (color)
Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright
298 pages (color)
Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Studio Museum in Harlem
200 pages (color)
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
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley
186 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Art: African American
1978
Lewis, Samella
246 pages (color)
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
1977
Grigsby, Eugene Jr.
147 pages
The American Flag in the Art of Our Country (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Allentown Art Museum
92 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Two Centuries of Black American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Driskell, David C
221 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
Amistad II Afro-American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Driskell, David C
92 pages
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason
348 pages
William H Johnson 1901-1970 (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Breeskin, Adelyn D
208 pages
American Negro Art
1960
Dover, Cedric
186 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index