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June 30, 2006– January 7, 2007. Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds the largest and most complete collection of work by the African American modernist William H. Johnson (1901–1970) and has done much in the past 30 years to preserve his art and establish his reputation.
- March 19, 1901
- April 14, 1970
William H. Johnson (artist) William Henry Johnson (March 18, 1901 – April 13, 1970) was an American painter. Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne. He later lived and worked in France, where he was exposed to modernism.
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- April 13, 1970 (aged 69), Central Islip, New York
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William Henry Johnson (March 18, 1901 – April 13, 1970) was an African-American painter. Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne. He later lived and worked in France, where he was exposed to modernism.
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- Florence, South Carolina, United States
Jul 27, 2020 · William Johnson. Fair use image. William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901 in Florence, South Carolina to mother Alice Smoot Johnson (known as “Mom Alice” or “Aunt Alice”) and father Henry Johnson. William H. Johnson was the oldest of five children: Lacy, Lucy, James, and Lillian.
American, 1901–1970. William Henry Johnson, one of the great painter/poets of American experience, left South Carolina, the state of his birth, in 1917, when he was only 17, and found a place in the Harlem home of an uncle who made a good living as a porter on the trains that ran north and south. Johnson’s journey was part of the Great Migration, the mass exodus of Black Americans from the ...
Born William Henry Johnson on March 18, 1901 in Florence, SC, he moved to New York with ambitions of becoming a cartoonist at the age of 17. However, his teacher at the National Academy of Design, Charles Webster Hawthorne, encouraged him to pursue painting instead of illustration. In 1926, Hawthorne raised money for Johnson to study abroad in ...
Arriving in Paris in 1926, Johnson thrilled to the city’s vibrant cultural scene and its participants. His friendships with modern artists such as Henry Ossawa Tanner and the exposure to the works of Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cézanne inspired Johnson to experiment with color and form in ways that transcended his formal academic training.
