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William Henry Johnson

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William Henry Johnson (1901 - 1970) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, South Carolina / Denmark, Norway.  William Johnson is 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 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.

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Facts about William Henry Johnson

   Publications  Book References:  43
Magazine References:  19

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19 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Henry Johnson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Southwest Art Texas Best of the West February 2007 Editor Yes
The Magazine Antiques Museum Accessions April 2006 Gustafson, Eleanor H Yes
American Art Review Melting Pot: Art That Looks Like Am April 2004 Severens, Martha R Yes
American Art Review American Impressionism in Context February 2002 Severens, Martha R Yes
ARTnews Reviews May 2001 Editors Yes
American Art Review Southern Scene February 2001 Severens, Martha R. Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
Art & Antiques Passionate Collectors June 2000 DiMartino, Christina; K Bryant No
ARTnews And Now A Word About The Sponsors May 2000 Falkenstein, Michelle Yes
ARTnews Shaping the Story of Black Art May 2000 Newkirk, Pamela Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 2000 Editors Yes
Art in America Front Page December 1997 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Art News National November 1997 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review The American Scene and the South October 1997 Phagan, Patricia Yes
Art & Auction Around the Block October 1997 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews Reviews December 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review The Southern Collection: A New Look December 1995 Severens, Martha R Yes
The Magazine Antiques Greenville (SC) County Museum /Art November 1994 Severens, Martha Yes
American Art Review African American Art June 1994 AR editors Yes
43 Book References for William Henry Johnson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf Cezanne and American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 372 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Fein, E. How to Draw New York's Sights and Symbols 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1998 Turner, S. and Dailey, V. William H. Johnson Truth Be Told 200 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1996 Sussman, Elizabeth City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1991 Powell, Richard J/M Puryear Homecoming The Life and Art of William H Johnson
(Exhibition catalog)		 255 Yes
1989 Gambone, Robert L Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940 286 Yes
1989 Reynolds, Gary/Beryl J Wright Against the Odds African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Studio Museum in Harlem Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1982 Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Grigsby, Eugene Jr. Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society 147 No
1976 Allentown Art Museum The American Flag in the Art of Our Country
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1971 Breeskin, Adelyn D William H Johnson 1901-1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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