Clarence Raymond Johnson oil painting of a California Desert

Description: Clarence Raymond Johnson (American, 1894-1981) untitled (The Desert) oil on board, signed l.r. measures approximately: 27 7/8" W x 21 7/8" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing (if paying by check or cash, processing fee will be refunded) and carrier fees. If local pickup is selected and if applicable, payment processing fee will still be assessed and due. About Clarence R. Johnson Clarence Johnson was an important New Hope School Impressionist painter who was active from 1917 until 1938. Johnson lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and North Carolina. Born in Ohio, Johnson began his studies at the Columbus Art School. In 1912, he came to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to study painting with Daniel Garber, their mutual interest and talent soon turned into a great friendship, both becoming painters of the New Hope School of Impressionism. In 1917, he won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship but before making use of this award, Johnson would serve his country for two years in the U.S. Army Ambulance service in France. Upon his return home after the war, Johnson re-enrolled into the Pennsylvania Academy in 1919, and in 1920 returned to France on his Cresson Scholarship. While in France, he painted Giverny, the small town which was home to Claude Monet. Returning to the United States once again, Johnson settled in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, near the residence and studio of his mentor and close friend, Daniel Garber. Johnson was soon recognized as a key member of the New Hope Art Colony. His one man show at Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1924 received rave reviews from the New York papers. He achieved critical success early in his career winning the First Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design and the Peabody Prize at the Art Institute of Chicago for “Lumberville Lock” in 1925. He also won the Toppan Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy and a Bronze Medal at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. In the manner of artists of his day, Johnson exhibited his works in large juried salons regularly through the mid-1930s. Johnson stopped painting around 1938. He went into the antique business, selling American period furniture and accessories from a shop in Lahaska, a village midway between New Hope and Doylestown. He refused to allow any of his paintings to be sold until after his death. After his death in 1981, the entire body of his work, which had not been exhibited for nearly 50 years, was shown at the Janet Fleisher Gallery in Philadelphia. Because he was only active for less than twenty years, Johnson did not paint a large body of work, although what he did produce was of consistently high quality. In 1989, at Sotheby’s in New York, an oil painting by Johnson was among the first by the Pennsylvania Impressionist painters to be valued over one hundred thousand dollars at auction, fetching, at that time, an impressive $121,000.

Price: 7500 USD

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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