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Edwin Boyd Johnson

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Edwin Boyd Johnson (1904 - 1968) was active/lived in Tennessee / Mexico.  Edwin Johnson is known for Mural and easel painting, modernist-leaning landscape, photography.

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American artist Edwin Boyd Johnson grew up in Tennessee. He was born in Watertown TN on November 4, 1904. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Nashville. He attended Rosemont Grade School and Central High School. Due to a strained financial situation, Johnson worked days as a sign painter for General Outdoor Advertising Company in his senior year and attended school at night. After high school, he studied art at the Watkins College of Art, Design and Film.

In 1925 Johnson enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1930. While in school, he worked various part time jobs, utilizing the skills he had learned at the advertising company and at Watkins Institute. Following his graduation, he studied for a year at the National Academy in New York City.

As a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, Johnson exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 193   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5793 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Edwin Boyd Johnson


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Design
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Photography as Fine Art
  • Sign Painting/ Sign Design
Art MediaArt Style
  • Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Alaska Before 1940
  • Egypt
  • Europe
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
Art Association
  • Chicago Society of Artists
Art School
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Alaska Art Project Artist, WPA
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Greeting Card Design Artist
  • Mural Specialty
  • Post Office Mural Painter, WPA Treasury Relief Art Project
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Chicago Society of Artists-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art

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