Original works of art
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David Johnson |
(American, 1827 -1908 ) |
Johnson born May 10, 1827 in New York. At the beginning of his artistic career he received a few lessons from J. F. Cropsey. He studied the works of the great European masters of landscape painting, but his professional life passed entirely in New York, and he had never been abroad. He was elected a National Academician in 1861, and was one of the founders of the Artists Fund Society. At the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876 he exhibited Scenery on the Housatonic, Old Man of the Mountains, and A Brook Study, Orange County, NY, and received one of the first awards. His pictures are notable for fine color and excellent drawing. He died Jan. 30, 1908 at Walden, NY. |
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