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Rebecca Johnson
"Rain Forest" bronze and stone sculpture

2022

About the Item

Rebecca Johnson's "Rain Forest" sculpture springs from the idea of rain as life-giving, with a plump cast bronze raindrop stretching skyward and sprouting into a graceful fern leaf. The smooth bronze raindrop sports rich shades of green and turquoise above a wavy line of shiny bronze, with an earth-like dark brown at the bottom, anchoring it to the base below. The basalt pedestal has a natural gray texture on one side and smooth-cut and carved black and gray on the other sides. The fluid carvings form what looks like a stream descending from the raindrop and running down the vertical surface to the base below. Rebecca Johnson grew up in an art-centric family in rural Hopewell, New Jersey. Her parents were designers, artists, and art educators and "Life is Art" was the family credo. This philosophy enriched and continues to inform Johnson's art and career. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She studied bronze casting at the Johnson Atelier in New Jersey and stone carving in quarries in Vermont. Grants, fellowships, shows in galleries and museums, commissions, critical acclaim, and teaching positions at Dartmouth and Kenyon Colleges distinguished her career.  Johnson now lives and works in Mendocino County in Northern California, a place of raw elemental forces. She creates paintings inside a large renovated barn at her studio in the Anderson Valley. The doors of the studio open to a hillside meadow filled with her stone sculpture. The calm beauty of this rural place resonates from her work.
  • Creator:
    Rebecca Johnson (1958, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2022
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 56 in (142.24 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Depth: 11 in (27.94 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Glen Ellen, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU71211414732

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