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Buffie Johnson

Buffie Johnson (1912 - 2006) was active/lived in New York.  Buffie Johnson is known for Portrait, abstract, realist floral painting.

Born in New York City on February 20th, 1912, Buffie Johnson studied at the Art Students League of New York and at the Academy Julian and S. W. Hayter Atelier in Paris, where she also studied privately with Francis Picabia.  She earned a B.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.  From 1946-1950, she was an instructor at the Parsons School of Design.  Johnson is known for huge paintings, "single image frontal plant forms" of orchids, irises and tulips, seed pods and fruits, intended to symbolize the "Lady of the Plants." 

In New York in the 1940s, and in the 1950s in East Hampton and New York, Buffie Johnson exhibited with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell, among others.  In  the 1950s, she took frequent trips to Europe, where she lectured for the U.S. State Department, exhibited in Paris, and collected images for a proposed book on the Great Goddess and Her Sacred Ani   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6207 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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