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{{Short description|American painter}} |
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| name = David Johnson |
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| image = Near Noroton, Connecticut 1875.jpg |
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| caption = '''''Near [[Noroton]] Connecticut''''' (1875) by David Johnson |
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| birth_date = {{birth date |1827|5|10|}} |
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| birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. |
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| death_date = {{death date and age |1908|1|30|1827|5|10|}} |
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| death_place = [[Walden, New York]] |
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| nationality = [[United States|American]] |
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| training = [[National Academy of Design]] |
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'''David Johnson''' (May 10, 1827 – January 30, 1908) was a member of the second generation of [[Hudson River School]] painters. |
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==Biography== |
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Johnson was born in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. He studied for two years at the antique school of the [[National Academy of Design]] and also studied briefly with the [[Hudson River]] artist [[Jasper Francis Cropsey]]. Along with [[John Frederick Kensett]] and [[John William Casilear]], he was best known for the development of [[Luminism (American art style)|Luminism]]. |
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On the back of a painting made at Haines Falls, Kauterskill Clove, in 1849, Johnson wrote "My first study from nature. Made in company with J.F. Kensett, and J.W. Casilear,".<ref name="H1">Howat, et al. 269</ref> By 1850, Johnson was exhibiting regularly at the [[National Academy of Design]] in New York, where he became an associate in 1859; in 1861 he was elected a full Academician.<ref name="H1">Howat, et al. 269</ref> |
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Johnson's signature works are usually small in format, tightly painted, delicately handled and richly colored.<ref name="H2">Howat, et al. 276</ref> Based on copious preliminary drawings and studies of specific trees in their natural environment, his paintings are accurate and inviting representations of Northeastern scenery and 'exquisite examples of the style that is now called Luminism.'<ref name="H2">Howat, et al. 276</ref> Johnson painted numerous Lake George scenes between the late 1860s and early 1870s, including ''View of Dresden, Lake George'' (below).<ref name="H2">Howat, et al. 276</ref> |
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Johnson's greatest success was achieved during the mid-1870s, when he exhibited paintings of such popular landscape locales as the Catskills, Lake George and the White Mountains, as well as pastoral scenes of central New York state, an area which he was the only important artist of the era to frequent.<ref name="H1">Howat, et al. 269</ref> He exhibited extensively in major American art centers, including [[Chicago]], [[Boston]] and [[Philadelphia]], and at the Paris Salon of 1877.<ref name="H1">Howat, et al. 269</ref> Thenceforward his work changed to reflect the influence of the French Barbizon school, a stylistic transition that met with harsh critical reception from his colleagues,<ref name="H1">Howat, et al. 269</ref> but which paralleled the dilemma faced by Hudson River school painters seeking to stay relevant as aesthetic tastes changed.<ref name="Howat, et al. 72">Howat, et al. 72</ref> ''Bayside, New Rochelle, New York'' (below) is an example of Johnson's later work, when the Barbizon influence eclipsed his earlier debt to the Hudson River school.<ref name="Howat, et al. 72"/> |
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Johnson died in [[Walden, New York|Walden]], New York, in 1908. |
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==Gallery== |
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<gallery widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4"> |
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Image:Brooklyn Museum - Sketchbook Conway New Hampshire - David Johnson.jpg|''Sketchbook Conway New Hampshire'' - [[Brooklyn Museum]] |
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Image:Natural Bridge Virginia David Johnson.jpeg|''Natural Bridge, Virginia'', 1860 - [[Reynolda House Museum of American Art]] |
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Image:Johnson View of Dresden Lake George.jpg|''View of Dresden, Lake George'', 1874 |
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Image:Johnson David Bayside New Rochelle New York.jpg|''Bayside, New Rochelle, New York'', 1886 - [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |
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</gallery> |
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==See also== |
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*[[List of Hudson River School artists]] |
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==Notes== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==References== |
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Howat, John K. et al. ''American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School'', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987. |
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==External links== |
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{{Commons category|David Johnson}} |
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*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/38038/rec/39 American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Johnson (see index) |
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* [http://whitemountainart.com/ArtistGalleries/gal_dj.htm White Mountain paintings by David Johnson] |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120304151708/http://www.reynoldahouse.org/discover/collections/selected_works.php Reynolda House Museum of American Art] |
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{{Hudson River School}} |
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[[Category:1827 births]] |
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[[Category:1908 deaths]] |
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[[Category:19th-century American painters]] |
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[[Category:American male painters]] |
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[[Category:20th-century American painters]] |
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[[Category:Hudson River School painters]] |
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[[Category:American landscape painters]] |
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[[Category:Luminism (American art style)]] |
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[[Category:Artists from New York (state)]] |
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[[Category:People from Walden, New York]] |
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Revision as of 19:57, 24 September 2018
He drew good loking pictures.