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William H. Johnson
African American artist (1901-1970)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 March 1901
- Died
- 13 April 1970
- Place of birth
- Florence
- Place of death
- Central Islip
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Johnson
- Spouse
- Holcha Krake
- Movement
- primitivism
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker
- Citizenship
- United States
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- described by source
- National Gallery of Art Library Vertical Files, St. James Guide to Black Artists
- different from
- William Arnold Johnson
- educated at
- Wilson High School
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- has works in the collection
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Harmon Foundation Collection at Fisk University, George and Joyce Wein Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- student of
- Charles Webster Hawthorne
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