“Within the art world, he's a biggie,” said Sarah Tignor, director of Spartanburg’s Johnson Collection (no relation), where some of the artist’s work resides. But before William ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1146 The early 20th century produced an audaciously talented but tragic figure in the painter William H. Johnson.

William H. Johnson’s Fighters for Freedom paintings reference images by Still, Parks, and others as a method of re-depicting important historical scenes and celebrating them through a new ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist landscapes in Europe for more than a ...

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Bienvenue: African American Artists in France, a historical survey of seventeen Black American artists who lived and worked in France from the late nineteenth ...

This painting resurfaced for me in late 2020, when I began to develop digital educational resources to support SAAM’s exhibition Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice.

A native of Florence, William H. Johnson traveled thousands of miles ... His work lives on, however; more than 1,000 of his paintings make their home in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

William Henry Johnson, a celebrated African American artist who was born in Florence, S.C., in 1901, must have been feeling all kinds of pressure in 1943 when he began painting "Moon Over Harlem." ...

Rare paintings by William H. Johnson (1901-1970), an essential figure in modern American art and one of the nation’s most powerful black painters, are on view until July 13 at the downtown venue.