Buffie Johnson
Buffie Johnson (February 12, 1912 – August 11, 2006) was an American painter, associated with the Abstract Imagists.
Buffie Johnson | |
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The artist "Buffie at 30", Circa 1935, photograph by Edward Weston | |
| Born | February 12, 1912 New York, New York |
| Died | August 11, 2006 (aged 94) New York, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism |
| Website | buffiejohnson |
Biography
Born in New York City, Johnson studied in her youth at the Académie Julian in Paris and at the Art Students League of New York.[1] She had lessons with Francis Picabia and Stanley William Hayter,[2] and she earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1943, Johnson was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York.[3] From 1946 to 1950 she taught at the Parsons School of Design. She received many awards, including fellowships from Yaddo, the Bollingen Foundation, and the Edward Albee Foundation and her work appeared at the Whitney Biennial on multiple occasions. Organizations holding examples of her work include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Collection of Fine Arts; the Walker Art Center; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Yale University.[1] In 1988 she published Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals. Twice married – her second husband was the critic Gerald Sykes – Johnson was survived by a daughter.[2]
Legacy
She was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in the Arts 2007 by the College Art Association Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) and the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA).[4]
Johnson's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[5]
References
- ^ a b Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- ^ a b "Buffie Johnson, Artist and Friend of Artists, Dies at 94". The New York Times. 2 September 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ Butler, Cornelia H.; Schwartz, Alexandra (2010). Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art. p. 45. ISBN 9780870707711.
- ^ "Buffie Johnson - Biography". artNET. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
External links
- images of Buffie Johnson's paintings on artNET
- Buffie Johnson in the Smithsonian American Art Museum