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1919 Minneapolis, Minnesota - 2010 Westhampton, New York. Known for: Modernist street people figure and genre painting, teaching.
Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist brushwork lent vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive with the joy... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist brushwork lent vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive with the joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in Southampton on Long Island. His death, at a nursing home in Westhampton, N.Y., was confirmed by his son, Anthony. Mr. Johnson, a... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist brushwork lent vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive with the joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in Southampton on Long Island. His death, at a nursing home in Westhampton, N.Y., was confirmed by his son, Anthony. Mr. Johnson, a maverick associate of the Abstract Expressionists in New York, found his subject matter in the joys and sorrows of ordinary people on the street. His boxy figures of the 1960s, somberly painted in thick impasto their features often scratched into the... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of Lester Johnson. "Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91" . By William Grimes. June 8, 2010. Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist brushwork lent vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive with the joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in Southampton on Long Island. His death, at a nursing home in Westhampton, N.Y., was confirmed by his son, Anthony. Mr. Johnson, a maverick associate of the Abstract Expressionists in New York, found his subject matter in the joys and sorrows of ordinary people on the street. His boxy figures of the 1960s, somberly painted in thick impasto their features often scratched into the surface, faced the viewer squarely with an air of stoicism or grim defiance. Some were self-portrait... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Teacher
- •Cameron Booth
Art School
- •Minneapolis School of Fine Art, College Art & Design, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art, and Architecture, Teacher
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Swedish
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts