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1915 Virginia - 2000. Known for: Naive figure, outsider art, murals.
Anderson Johnson was born in Virginia 1915 and was a resident of Newport News, Virginia. His father was a sharecropper. God started speaking to Anderson early on in his life, and at the ripe old age... Read full biography
Anderson Johnson was born in Virginia 1915 and was a resident of Newport News, Virginia. His father was a sharecropper. God started speaking to Anderson early on in his life, and at the ripe old age of sixteen, young Master Johnson was called by the Lord to preach the Gospel. Anderson was a street... Read full biography
Anderson Johnson was born in Virginia 1915 and was a resident of Newport News, Virginia. His father was a sharecropper. God started speaking to Anderson early on in his life, and at the ripe old age of sixteen, young Master Johnson was called by the Lord to preach the Gospel. Anderson was a street preacher in many cities and towns before settling in Newport News in 1985. After an accident left him partially paralyzed, Anderson converted the first floor of his home into a church which was to... Read full biography
Anderson Johnson was born in Virginia 1915 and was a resident of Newport News, Virginia. His father was a sharecropper. God started speaking to Anderson early on in his life, and at the ripe old age of sixteen, young Master Johnson was called by the Lord to preach the Gospel. Anderson was a street preacher in many cities and towns before settling in Newport News in 1985. After an accident left him partially paralyzed, Anderson converted the first floor of his home into a church which was to become known as "Faith Mission". Reverend Johnson had a quick wit and was once asked by a visitor why he only had three chairs in his living room for his congregation, Anderson quickly replied "Most times that's three too many !". Anderson covered the... Read full biography
Anderson Johnson was born in Virginia 1915 and was a resident of Newport News, Virginia. His father was a sharecropper. God started speaking to Anderson early on in his life, and at the ripe old age of sixteen, young Master Johnson was called by the Lord to preach the Gospel. Anderson was a street preacher in many cities and towns before settling in Newport News in 1985. After an accident left him partially paralyzed, Anderson converted the first floor of his home into a church which was to become known as "Faith Mission". Reverend Johnson had a quick wit and was once asked by a visitor why he only had three chairs in his living room for his congregation, Anderson quickly replied "Most times that's three too many !". Anderson covered the walls of Faith Mission with hundreds of paintings. Most of these were of women's faces done on salvaged plywood or cardboard. Fait... Read full biography
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Keywords (12)
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Outsider Art