Artworks by Lester F Johnson at Mojo Portfolio on artnet

Lester F. Johnson

(American, 1919–2010)

Lester F. Johnson

Faces, 1980

975 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Street Scene (Crowd), 1980

1,000 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Close Up(Blondi), 1980

1,000 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Street Scene, 1980

950 USD

Lester F. Johnson

City Graces, 1980

1,000 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Passing Crowd, 1980

1,000 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Passing Crowd(Hardhat), 1980

1,000 USD

Lester F. Johnson

Passing Crowd(White Floral Dress), 1980

1,000 USD

Timeline

1919: Lester Johnson was born in 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the youngest of seven and grandchild of Swedish Homesteaders. After studying at the Minneapolis School of Art, and the St. Paul Art School, he came to New York City in 1947. His first studio (and home) was next door to Wolf Kahn on 6th Street and Avenue A, followed by a loft on St. Mark’s Place which he shared with Larry Rivers. He married Josephine Valenti, an art historian, in 1949, and moved into a house on 2nd Ave and 2nd Street – which was shared, again, with Wolf Kahn. After moving uptown, he continued to work downtown, in a studio on 222 Bowery. In 1961, he briefly left the city for an artist-in-residence position at Ohio State. After returning, and while sharing a studio on 10th St. with Philip Pearlstein, he was invited by Jack Tworkov to teach at Yale. He accepted and he and his wife, with their two children moved to Milford, CT, where he taught and continued to paint in a studio behind their house. Summers were spent in Springs, Long Island (where Lester and Jo bought property in 1955), throughout his time at Yale as well as after moving to Greenwich, CT. Johnson died in Southampton in 2010.
1939: Alfred Pillsbury Scholarship
1940 - 1941: The President’s Scholarship, Minneapolis School of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1941: St. Paul Gallery Scholarship
1942 - 1947: Studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, St. Paul Art School, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1942: Longview Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology
: Midwestern Artists Competition 1st prize
1947: Came to New York
1964 - 1989: Professor (Adjunct) of Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1964: Summer Aritist-In-Residence, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
1969 - 1974: Director of Studies Graduate Painting, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1973: Guggenheim Fellowship
1978: Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for Painting
1987: Elected Associate National Academy of Design

Exhibitions

1998: Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1996: Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Denise Cade Gallery in association with Joseph Rickards Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
: UFO Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
1995: Editions, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
: Editions 1974-1991, Pharos Gallery, New York, NY
: The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1994: Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1991: A Print Retrospective 1960-1990, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
1990: Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1989: Retrospective, David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
1988: 35 Years of Prints, Cone Editions, New York, NY (solo)
: Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
1987: Works on Paper 1960-87, Jack Schainman Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
: Naked/Nude, print exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1986: Gallery Moos Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada (solo)
1985: The Artist Celebrates New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
: Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
1984: Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
: Aspects of the City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Figure Expressionism, Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, CA
: The First Eight Years, Artists’ Choice Museum, New York, NY
1983: Connecticut Painters 7+7+7, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
: The Early Paintings 1957-67, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1982: Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: In Our Time, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: Homo Sapiens, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1981: The Sun Gallery, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
1980: Street Scenes, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Galery, New York, NY (solo)
1979: Collection: Art in America After World War II, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1978: A Benefit for the Yale School of Art: Works by Members of the Yale Faculty 1950-78, Harold Reed Gallery, New York, NY
1977: The City, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Galery, New York, NY (solo)
1976: Painting & Sculpture Today 1976, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1975: Early Works, Livingston-Learmonth Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1974: Nineteenth National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
1973: 1973 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1972: Ten Independents - An Artist Initiated Exhibition, The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Immagine per la Citta, Palazzo dell’Academia Palazzo Reale, Genoa, Italy
1971: The Human Situation: Street Scene 1969-71, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1970: Regards Privileges 1951-70, Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
1969: II Bienal Internacional del De Porte en Ias Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968: Social Comment in American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1967: the 1960’s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1966: Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
1965: Figuration, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1964: Contemporary American Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Portraits from the American Art World, New School Art Center, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1963: Eleven Americans, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1960: Figure in Contemporary Painting, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1959: 100 Works on Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1958: Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1957: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1956: Artists of the New York School: Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1951: Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1949: Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Lester F. Johnson

(American, 1919–2010)

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Lester F. Johnson

Biography

Timeline

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