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1901 Florence, South Carolina - 1970 Long Island, New York. Known for: Naive genre, figure, still life painting, serigraphs, drawing.
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
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
- •Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •American Flag Images
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Teacher
- •Charles Hawthorne
Art School
- •Cape Cod School of Art, Student
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Harmon Foundation Award
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Harlem Renaissance Artist
- •LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Texas Centennial Exposition
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Harmon Foundation, Harlem
- •Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums
Exhibition of Special Group
- •American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940