Trembling Vistas, Primal Youth: William H. Johnson’s Painterly Expressionism
National Nordic Museum 2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA, United StatesTaking selected cues from modern painting, the African American artist William Henry Johnson (1901-1970) introduced a radical and, arguably, a unique perspective onto avant-garde portraiture and landscapes: views of peoples and places informed by an emotionally charged, gesture-imposed vantage point. Whether the rendering was of a small town in the American South, the French Riviera, […]