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Ynez Johnston (1920 - 2019) was active/lived in California. Ynez Johnston is known for Modernist naive-views, non objective painting, printmaking.
Painter/printmaker Ynez Johnston was born in 1920 in Berkeley, California. She studied drafting, painting and printmaking at the University of California with Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson. Johnston's work is characterized by "jigsaw" shapes reminiscent of primitive designs. Her unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. She has also done 3-dimensional pieces in collaboration with her husband, poet and novelist John Berry, and with ceramic sculptor Adam Mekler.
Her watercolors, oils and etchings of the 1950s and 1960s were rich with complex imagery, and displayed a disciplined and somewhat restrained use of color.
The display of her paintings and etchings in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1951) was the launch of her career as a successful artist.
In later mixed-media pieces, she examined the tactile qualities of surface. The paintings involve the combination, and ...
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Peter Shire
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Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX)
Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York City, NY)
Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, CA)
Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA) (San Francisco, CA)
The University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ)
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI)
Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN)
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