Frances Ynez Johnston

Place: Berkeley

Born: 1920

Death: 2019

Biography:

Ynez Johnston (May 12, 1920 – March 13, 2019) was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator. Known for her work in painting, printmaking, and mixed media, Johnston was particularly inspired by Byzantine art, as well as Tibetan, Indian, Mexican, and Nepalese art from her extensive travels. Johnston was based in the San Francisco Bay Area in early life, and moved to Los Angeles in 1949. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and received the Bertha Taussig Memorial Award in 1941, which enabled her to travel to Mexico. She had her first solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1944. Johnston received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.