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About Avery Frederik Johnson:
Johnson, born in Wheaton, Illinois in 1906, studied at Wheaton College then graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933. Johnson’s impressive exhibition record, beginning in 1938, includes participation in national shows at the Art Institute and the National Academy of Design, at the American Watercolor Society, the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco (1939), at the New Jersey Watercolor Society, and elsewhere. Johnson participated in the New Deal post office mural program. For instance he executed Autumn Fields for the Liberty, Indiana Post Office (1939), on which occasion he wrote: "It is simply an Indiana farm, yet it is also one of the most vital segments of our national life; a one family farm truly represents the American ideals of individual independence and democratic cooperation." Skating on Bonaparte’s Pond for the U.S. Post Office in Bordentown, New Jersey (1940) is representational but highly simplified in its smooth planes of snow-covered hills and valleys. Johnson taught at the Montclair Art Museum between 1940 and 1970. |
Paintings by Avery Frederik Johnson
| House Reflection in the Stream |
| watercolor on paper: 20 x 18 inches |
| signed and dated 1952: lower right |
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