director of Spartanburg’s Johnson Collection (no relation), where some of the artist’s work resides. But before William H. Johnson traversed the streets of New York, Paris or Copenhagen ...

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 ...

SAAM educator Phoebe Hillemann reflects on creating resources to spark curiosity for learners of all ages who view William H. Johnson’s “Fighters for Freedom” series Phoebe Hilleman William H.

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.

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 ...

Keara Teeter Keara Teeter treating William H. Johnson’s "Historical Scene with Mary McLeod Bethune," ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

William H. Johnson, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, 28 7⁄8 x 23 3⁄8 in. (73.5 x 59.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1146 ...