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Ynez Johnston Acrylic on Canvas, 1993 - "White Island"
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Ynez Johnston (1820 - 2019). Original Acrylic on Canvas, created 1993.
Titled: “White Island.” Signed, dated and titled on the verso.
The painting measures 24"h x 18"w. The frame is 25"h x 19"w.
The work is in excellent condition and simply framed.
This is a beautiful work in Ms. Johnston's unique Modernist style.
Characterized by intricate compositions, Ynez Johnston’s watercolors, oils and etchings are rich with complex images. Pervading such images is a kind of medieval worldview, with overtones of the mythical.."
After her studies at the University of California, she traveled extensively through Italy, Mexico, India, and Nepal, further broadening her artistic vocabulary. In the early 1940s, Johnston traveled to Mexico to continue her studies but returned to Berkeley in 1943 eventually earning a Masters of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1949, she summered in Paris and then relocated to the Los Angeles area in the fall. Finding herself without a studio or press, Leonard Edmondson, a friend from college, opened his studio to her. She experimented with woodcut and began to do sculpture in 1950.
In later mixed-media pieces, she examined the tactile qualities of surface. Johnston cited Persian and Indian miniatures as influences but also drew inspiration from European abstract artists Matisse, Miro, Klee and Picasso.
In 1951, her work was featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Subsequently, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, first place in watercolor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1952, and Fresno Art Museum's Distinguished Artist Award in 1992.
Johnston’s work is featured in various permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, among others.
- Creator:Ynez Johnston (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1993
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- Seller Location:Phoenix, AZ
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