and prints—and entered the national collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1967. Examples of three paintings from William H. Johnson's "Fighters for Freedom" series (left to right ...

Three Great Abolitionists: A. Lincoln, F. Douglass, J. Brown, c. 1945. The onetime expressionist saw his stark new style as “not a change but a development.” Smithsonian American Art Museum ...

A small but vibrant collection of paintings on Phoenix Art Museum’s upper level is worth a peek before it’s gone. Rare paintings by William H. Johnson (1901-1970), an essential figure in ...

If you ask the average person, … they’re not going to know anything about William H. Johnson.” Johnson, a Florence native, is one of the most influential artists in South Carolina history.

A native of Florence, William H. Johnson traveled thousands of miles for his art. Born into poverty in 1901, Johnson headed to New York at 17 to study art. He worked multiple jobs to pay tuition ...

(Being “like-minded,” in my experience, is a state to which the best artists are constitutionally averse.) William Henry Johnson, a celebrated African American artist who was born in Florence ...

The Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s prescient, social justice-forward final series of paintings is a testament to courage. Fighters for Freedom, organised as a touring exhibition ...