Artist: Joshua Johnson (1763 - 1824)
Nationality: African-American
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, 18th century
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Joshua Johnson, Letitia Grace McCurdy, circa 1800 - 1802
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, Mrs. Johnson, sister to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 18th - 19th century
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Joshua Johnson - Mr. Baylor c. 1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joshua Johnson - Family Group c.1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joshua Johnson - Adelina Morton c. 1810 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Abram Ross Stanley - Joshua Lamb 1842 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1784 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joshua Johnson - Sarah Ogden Gustin c. 1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. Aaron Lopez and Her Son Joshua 1772-73 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Joshua Johnson - Mrs. Abraham White and Daughter Rose c. 1808-1809 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Thomas Gainsborough - John Joshua Kirby n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua, 10th century; Middle Byzantine Byzantine; Made in
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James Fittler, Joshua Brookes, 1822
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Jakob Steinhardt, Joshua Stopping the Sun, 1959
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Beth Van Hoesen, Joshua, 20th century
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Charles Joshua Chaplin, La Peche, 1877
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Richard Earlom, Moses and Joshua, 1787
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Charles Joshua Chaplin, Roses de Mai, 1877
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Daniel Joshua Goldstein, Rocks III (triptych), 1978
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Rev. William Turner, 18th century
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The Messenger of God Appearing to Joshua
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Charles Joshua Chaplin, Avant le bain, 1876
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Charles Joshua Chaplin, Les Colombes, 19th century
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Daniel Joshua Goldstein, Rocks III (triptych), 1978
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Daniel Joshua Goldstein, Rocks III (triptych), 1978
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Joshua Shaw, Classical Landscape, circa 1830
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John Singleton Copley, Joshua Henshaw, circa 1770
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Charles Joshua Chaplin, Girl with Letter, 19th century
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Miss Maria Elizabeth Boothby, 1758
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Joshua H. Peirce, James Evrard, Comedien, 19th century
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Daniel Joshua Goldstein, Water Garden/ Homage to Bachelad, 1978
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Giralamo Ferroni, Joshua arresting the Sun, 17th - 18th century
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Valentine Green, Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 18th - 19th century
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Anne, Viscountess, Afterwards Marchioness of Townsend, circa 1780
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Robert White, Portrait of Joshua Barnes, S.T.B., 17th - 18th century
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Duchess of Argyll and Hamilton (sketch for painting), 18th century
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James Sharples, Catherine Livingston Thorn Johnson (Mrs. Horace Johnson), circa 1796
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Antonio Tempesta, Joshua Ordering the Sun to Stand Still, from the series Biblical Battles, 1613
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Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) Style of William Grimaldi (1773 or later)Ivory; Oval, 1 7/8 x

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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I. Wolk Gallery: Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings
This show will feature more than 25 new pieces ranging from painterly figure compositions reminiscent of David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Tradition to bucolic scenes of Italy and California. Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
Artists by the Sea: Images: Photography by Ed and Stacia Johnson
Ed and Stacia Johnson are featured in the International Library of Photography in several upcoming editions, and have their work featured on several web sites. IMAGE:
To L...
Frick Collection: Mantegna's Descent into Limbo, from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection
Because it was so highly regarded, several other versions were made, including this smaller one, which was probably done for Ferdinando Carlo, the last Duke of Mantua, around 1470–75.Lent through the generosity of the Barbara Pia...
Wexner Center for the Arts: Ray Johnson: Correspondences
A progenitor of pop art and a major force in the development of mail art, especially through the activities of his New York Correspondence School, Johnson was a potent and influential presence in the art world from the 1950s through the 1990s. The...
Triton Museum of Art: New Works by California Artists: Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Johnson is an artist who is above all, a colorist. He paints both directly on site and by memory in the studio. His oil on linen paintings are sensitive celebrations of nature, color, place and time. Johnson, who moved to Palo Al...
Oakland Museum of California, at Latham Square: Essence of Place: Work by Mitchell Johnson
Essence of Place, at the Latham Square Building, is an exhibit of seven large- scale paintings by Menlo Park-based artist Mitchell Johnson. The exhibit includes landscapes and figurative work painted on site in Italy, France, New Mexico and N...
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University: Meiji Photography
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Detroit Institute of Art: A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection
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Montclair Art Museum: HE PEOPLE'S CHOICE: FAVORITES FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Eastman Johnson: Painting America
Organization: This exhibition was organized by Teresa A. Carbone, Associate Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Patricia Hills, noted Johnson scholar and faculty member of Boston University's Art Hi...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Changing Space: John and Jessica Johnson
This work and others in the exhibition are a commentaty on changes and events we have witnssed and experienced over a twelve month period. The works are these personal tragedies and a celebration of li...
Joao Ferreira Fine Art: Change no Sorry
Featured works in the exhibition are by Sue Williamson, Mark Hipper, Bridgit Baker (currently in residence at Stellenbosch University), Helen Johnson, Kim Stern, Steven Cohen, William Kentridge, Nicola Jackson, Eris Silke Ro...
En Plein Air: Monet 2000 Excursion
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California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
SpecialtyArts.Com: Awards Program 2000 Launched
If youve ever wanted to get an advance look at emerging talent and trends in the visual arts, you can now view SpecialtyArt.Coms Awards 2000 Program online. The Awards 2000 Program reflects SpecialtyArts.Coms corporate mission to educate and incr...
Vermont Studio Center: Call for Artists: Artists' and Writers' Residencies
Applications and more information are available on our Website at www.vermontstudiocenter.org, or phone us at 802-635-2727. To download the full brochure, please see
Crafts Council Gallery: Textile Innovation in Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002
An exciting range of textiles will be represented in this year's exhibition, held at the Crafts Council Gallery between 19 September and 3 November 2002. None of the artists has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize before. The shortl...
Municipal Art Society of New York: The Long View
The title The Long View refers to Mr. Johnson’s unique perspective among observers of contemporary architecture. Since organizing MoMA’s first architecture exhibition in 1932––Modern Architecture–International Exhibition––and...
LaTrobe Street Gallery: The Arch Rival of Verbal Communication
Created with media ranging from texta to traditional oils to latch-hook rugs, two-dimensional images conspire to form a plethora of emotional signifiers. Imagery for the work is sourced from the discarded photographs of strangers, family ph...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Carnegie Museum of Art: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1979-1999
The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1979-1999 is organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and is made possible by The Hyatt Foundation. ...
Vermont Studio Center: Call for Artists: Artists' and Writers' Residencies
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. Full Fellowship Application Deadlines: February 15, June 15, and October 1. Applications and more information are available on the VSC Website at www.vermontstud...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection
These genre works, ranging from formal family portraits, to informal scenes of workers in the landscape, to popular prints produced for publications and mass distribution, represent artists such as Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Enoch W...
Oakland Museum of California: Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000
Much of what we think of as Great American Photography is in fact Californian, said Drew Heath Johnson, Curator of Photography at OMCA. Names such as Weston, Watkins, Ansel Adams or Dorothea Lange are among the first that occur to us when we consi...
Visual Arts League at Johnson Med. School-Univ. of Med. and Dent.: 3 Americas! Brings Together Works from the Western Hemisphere
We will get a fresh concept of America by looking at these faces and figures from all over the great strip of ...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil,  Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Killer Instinct in the Zenith Media Lounge
The time-based nature of Johnson's game software allows these two characters to interact dynamically without a proscribed outcome. In Heaven @ 711, Anne-Marie Schleiner turns the DJ aspects of hip hop music into a stunning, formalist arcade-style...
Price Tower Art Center: Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture
Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Price Tower was his pioneering experiment in the multi-use skyscraper: a slim, tall, richly detailed structure, originally designed to combine business offices, shops and apartments. The non-profit Price Tower Arts Center ret...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Folk Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The more than 125 works from the Metropolitan Museum’s distinguished collection of American folk art cover the full range of subject matter delineated by these artists -- portraiture, land...
NEA, NEH: House Narrowly Defeats Move to Increase NEA/NEH Funds
While the NEA/NEH amendment was defeated, the close vote was a positive development moving Congress away from debating the agencies' survival to restoring them to more healthy levels of funding (historic highs for the agencies were $179.5 million ...

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