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1894 Maxtown, Ohio - 1981. Known for: Wooded landscape painting.
Clarence Raymond Johnson (1894-1981), from Pennsylvania, painted the rural landscape with an Impressionist style and subjects focused on nature. He often selected a high vantage point for his... Read full biography
Clarence Raymond Johnson (1894-1981), from Pennsylvania, painted the rural landscape with an Impressionist style and subjects focused on nature. He often selected a high vantage point for his paintings, with foreground clusters of trees and houses below, leading to extensive vistas of distant hills... Read full biography
Clarence Raymond Johnson (1894-1981), from Pennsylvania, painted the rural landscape with an Impressionist style and subjects focused on nature. He often selected a high vantage point for his paintings, with foreground clusters of trees and houses below, leading to extensive vistas of distant hills and sky. His color is rich with unexpected combinations of relatively high-key, atmospheric pastel shades. His forms have a rounded solidity (with just a subtle hint of Cezanne) and are more... Read full biography
Clarence Raymond Johnson (1894-1981), from Pennsylvania, painted the rural landscape with an Impressionist style and subjects focused on nature. He often selected a high vantage point for his paintings, with foreground clusters of trees and houses below, leading to extensive vistas of distant hills and sky. His color is rich with unexpected combinations of relatively high-key, atmospheric pastel shades. His forms have a rounded solidity (with just a subtle hint of Cezanne) and are more characteristic of American painting than the French Impressionist landscape painting of Monet and Renoir. "Summer Landscape", oil, 36 x 40, typifies Johnson's depiction of nature with airy, three-dimensional appearing forms of foreground trees, and just an... Read full biography
Clarence Raymond Johnson (1894-1981), from Pennsylvania, painted the rural landscape with an Impressionist style and subjects focused on nature. He often selected a high vantage point for his paintings, with foreground clusters of trees and houses below, leading to extensive vistas of distant hills and sky. His color is rich with unexpected combinations of relatively high-key, atmospheric pastel shades. His forms have a rounded solidity (with just a subtle hint of Cezanne) and are more characteristic of American painting than the French Impressionist landscape painting of Monet and Renoir. "Summer Landscape", oil, 36 x 40, typifies Johnson's depiction of nature with airy, three-dimensional appearing forms of foreground trees, and just an edge of a red roof appearing through them, leading to a view of distant hills and beyond, softened and blued by intervening atmosphere.... Read full biography
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Keywords (24)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Impressionism, Impressionist
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- •New Hope, Pennslvania/Lambertville New Jersey
Art Teacher
- •Cecilia Beaux
- •Edwin Blashfield
- •Emil Carlsen
- •Philip Lesley Hale
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Snowscene Specialty
Artist Colony
- •New Hope, Pennsylvania
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts