William Henry Johnson

Place: Florence

Born: 1901

Death: 1970

Biography:

William Henry Johnson (March 18, 1901 – April 13, 1970) was an Black American painter. Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne. He later lived and worked in France, where he was exposed to modernism. After Johnson married Danish textile artist H...