Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
American, 1919-2010
A New York artist, known as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Lester Johnson was born to a large Lutheran family in Minneapolis. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and the St. Paul Art School. There, he was introduced to Hans Hofmann's teaching approach, particularly the push and pull effects of form and color by St. Paul teachers Alexander Masley and Cameron Booth, both of whom had studied with Hofmann in Munich. After further study at the Chicago Art Institute, Johnson moved to New York City in 1947 and became one of the first downtown loft-dwellers. He shared a lower East Side studio with Larry Rivers and attended some of Hofmann's New York classes. Rents were cheap, but Johnson was broke much of the time as he tried to support his painting through a variety of part-time jobs, including teaching art. In 1950, he and realist figurative painter Philip Pearlstein shared studio space. Lester's wife, Jo, had introduced the two artists at a time when she and Pearlstein were studying art history at New York University.
Johnson's various studios, on the Bowery and elsewhere, were always one flight up with a view of Manhattan's active street life. No wonder, for over 50 years, street scenes have been a dominant part of his art. Johnson adopted the working techniques of action painting, which meant he used a great deal of paint. A tube of oil paint might be expended in seconds as he, like Pollock, physically projected himself into the work. The images that Johnson produced were not decorative, but stubbornly confrontational, oversize, brooding, thickly encrusted, scarred surfaces that were alive with recognizable objects and figures. Even today, few realize how radical it was for Johnson to depict a recognizable subject in an adamantly pro-abstract-expressionist climate. Sculptor George Segal recalled, "The Abstract Expressionists were legislating any reference to the physical world totally out of art. This was outrageous to us." The rebellion came naturally to Lester Johnson, and he remained tenaciously outside the mainstream. Nonetheless, he produced a body of work that influenced several generations of younger painters and confounded an art establishment in need of neat categorization. He remains one of the few painters whose work holds significance for both abstract and figurative artists. Johnson's animated men and women, with all their nervous energy, yield themselves only gradually to analysis and will no doubt be reinterpreted for many years to come.
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Artist: Lester Johnson
PASSING CROWD Signed Lithograph Women Men Walking, Peach, Burgundy Sheath Dress
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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DaVinci Tee Threesome, Signed Lithograph, Group Portrait, Pizza, Orange, Rust
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
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PASSING CROWD Signed Lithograph, Women Walking, Man in Hard Hat, Zigzag Dress
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Located in Union City, NJ
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
NY STREET SCENE I Signed Lithograph, City Crowd Portrait, Black Line Drawing
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
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1970s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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CLOSE UP Hand Drawn Lithograph Closeup Crowd Portrait Blondie T-Shirt, Cigarette
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
CLOSE UP is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival ARCHES paper 100% acid...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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CITY GROUP Signed Lithograph, Street Crowd, Women Men Faces, Peach Orange Brown
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
CITY GROUP is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper 10...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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NY SCENE Signed Lithograph, Group Portrait, Doll-Face Women, Baseball Cap
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
NY SCENE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset printmaking p...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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STREET SCENE Signed Lithograph, Men and Women Walking, Figurative Expressionism
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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THREE HEADS - FRONTAL
By Lester Johnson
Located in Portland, ME
Johnson, Lester (American 1919-2010). THREE HEADS FRONTAL. Lithograph, 1963. Edition of 39. Titled, numbered 29/38 and signed in pencil in the margin bel...
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1960s Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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CITY GRACES Signed Lithograph Modern Women Pucci Print Dresses, Peach, Red, Tan
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
CITY GRACES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival ARCHES paper 100% a...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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CITY GRACES Signed Lithograph, Group Portrait, Peach, Yellow, Brown, Plum
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
CITY GRACES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper 1...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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CITY VENUS Signed Lithograph, Men Women Walking, Sheath Dress, Peach Brown Pink
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
CITY VENUS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival ARCHES paper 100% ac...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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GROUP WALKING 1982 NYC Exhibition Poster, Fashionable Women Auburn Hair
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
LESTER JOHNSON 1982 NYC Vintage Art Exhibition Poster
Print Size -
25.25 x 29.5 inches, unframed, excellent condition, unsigned
Image size - 18.5 x 23 inches
Year published - 1982
GROUP WALKING is a vintage fine art exhibition poster by the American expressionist painter LESTER JOHNSON. It was created in 1982 in conjunction with the gallery exhibition of Johnson's paintings at Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery NYC. GROUP WALKING was printed in color offset lithography on high quality 80 lb. satin finish paper in soft pastel shades of pale peach, orange, pink, brown, green, muted navy blue, gray, black and white. GROUP WALKING is a modern figurative portrait depicting four fashionable women with auburn hair dressed in multicolored print sheath dresses and one young man wearing a navy blue Yankees cap smoking his cigarette in the background as they pass each other on a city street.
As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson(1919-2010) remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre. Johnson exhibited his art at the Martha Jackson Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery...
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1980s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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NY STREET SCENE II Hand Drawn Lithograph, Walking Women, Group Portrait, Faces
By Lester Johnson
Located in Union City, NJ
NY STREET SCENE II is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed in black ink using hand lithography techniques on archival...
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1970s Contemporary Lester Johnson Portrait Prints
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