Lester Johnson
Visual Artist
1919 – 2010
Who was Lester Johnson?
Lester Johnson was an American artist.
As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre.
In New York, Johnson exhibited at the Martha Jackson Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, and James Goodman Gallery as well as having been included in group shows at the Guggenheim, The Whitney, Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected a member to both the American Academy of Arts & Letters and National Academy of Design. His work was most recently shown in both the 2010 Armory Show and 2010 Art Chicago.
Johnson lived and worked in New York City, Springs, Milford, Greenwich, and Southampton, NY.
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1919
Minneapolis - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
( - 1947)
- Lived in
- Southampton
( - 2010/05/30) - Minneapolis
(1919 - 1947) - New York
(1947 - 1961) - Milford
- Greenwich
- Springs
- Southampton
- Died
- May 30, 2010
Southampton
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on July 23, 2013
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