New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
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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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New York, Kansas. 1899 - 1979
African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
Connecticut, New York. 1847 - 1923
Fruit and floral still life painting
New York, Connecticut / Italy. 1810 - 1894
Neo classical portrait bust sculpture
New York, Virginia. 1903 - 1988
African-American figure and genre painting
Washington, California, Oregon / Ireland. 1910 - 2001
Abstract, symbolic painting-birds, still life, insects and animals
New York, Connecticut / Europe. 1816 - 1888
Landscape, portrait and hunting genre painting
New York. 1892 - 1964
Abstraction, mod-real imagery
New York, Massachusetts / Spain. 1902 - 1971
Right angle geometric and modernist figure painting
Massachusetts, West Virginia. 1878 - 1956
Abstract geometric color woodblocks, botanics
New York / Canada. 1907 - 1967
Still-life paintings of machine parts, other broken pieces, sound design
New York. 1898 - 1969
Social-realist painting, illustration, lithography, photography
New York, Connecticut. 1851 - 1935
Still life, naive landscape and portrait painting
New York / Austria. 1895 - 1977
Mod figure-genre, still life
New York. 1866 - 1933
Urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
New York, Illinois. 1907 - 1975
Landscape, coastal, figure and genre painting
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
New York, Tennessee, New Jersey. 1855 - 1919
Frontier-war genre and landscape painting
New York. 1866/68 - 1950
Narrative, genre, portrait and interior painting
New York, South Carolina. 1841 - 1919
Idealized genre, sea-landscape and portrait painting
New York / France. 1868 - 1932
Paintings-figure, still life, landscape
New York, Ohio. 1893 - 1967
Landscape-structure and modernist botanic painting
New York / France, Russian Federation. 1881 - 1961
Cubist, futurist and fauvist painting-landscape, figure and still life
Massachusetts. 1849 - 1924
Dogs, still life, wildlife and trompe l'oeil doors-painting
New York. 1922 - 2015
Photo real portrait, interior and townscape painting
New York, Missouri. 1899 - 1985
Modernist sea-views and non-objective painting, graphics
Massachusetts, New York. 1872 - 1930
Portrait, genre and landscape painting, teaching