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David Johnson

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David Johnson (1827 - 1908) was active/lived in New York.  David Johnson is known for Hudson River landscape, some portrait, and still-life painting.

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 A landscape painter based in New York City and associated with the second generation of Hudson River School* painters, David Johnson was noted for his ability to delineate accurately rock formations and foliage. He was especially influenced by the work of Hudson River painters Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Casilear, and John Frederick Kensett.  He also painted an occasional still life.

Johnson was born and raised in New York City, but little else is known about his early life. He studied briefly with Cropsey, but said that his best teacher was nature, which he utilized in his paintings from his frequent trips to the Hudson River Valley, especially the areas around West Point and Fort Putnam. 

He painted his first nature studies in 1849, and that year first received public acclaim for his work exhibited at the National Academy of Design* and the American Art Union*. In 1860, he was elected a full Academician.

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for David Johnson available:    John Frederick Kensett,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge,  Sanford Robinson Gifford,  William Hart,  Jervis McEntee,  Eastman Johnson,  James McDougal Hart,  William Mason Brown,  William Stanley Haseltine,  Martin Johnson Heade,  John William Casilear,  Samuel Colman,  William Trost Richards,  Alfred Thompson Bricher,  George Inness,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Francis Augustus Silva,  Thomas Doughty,  Alexander Helwig Wyant,  Levi Wells Prentice,  Asher Brown Durand,  Walter Launt Palmer,  Hugh Bolton Jones



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Facts about David Johnson

   Publications  Book References:  111
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for David Johnson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Buying Buzz March 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
American Art Review Jean & Alvin Snowiss Collection of April 2003 Robinson and Mazow Yes
American Art Review The American Artist in Connecticut August 2002 Andersen, Jeffrey W Yes
The Magazine Antiques Museum Accessions July 2002 Gustafson, Eleanor Yes
American Art Review The Virginia Landscape August 2000 Kelly, James; W Rasmussen Yes
The Magazine Antiques Living With Antiques November 1997 Garrett, Wendel & Elisabeth Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of the Adirondack July 1997 Welsh, Caroline Yes
American Art Review Reflections of Taste February 1997 Sturges, Hollister Yes
111 Book References for David Johnson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Bacharach, Joan (General Editor) Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service) 160 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Hankin, Lisa Bush Selections III Brock & Co. 47 Yes
2003 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
2003 Palmer Museum of Art An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 Yes
2002 Spanierman Gallery (Editor) The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
2002 The Florence Griswold Museum The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
2001 Larkin, Susan G. The Cos Cob Art Colony Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore 246 Yes
2001 Peters, Lisa Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
2000 Editor, Spanierman Gallery Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1994 Lesko, Diane, (Ed) Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida 366 Yes
1993 Miller, Angela The Empire of the Eye Landscape and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875 298 Yes
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Weber, Bruce The Apple of America The Apple in 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Eldredge, Charles C American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum 135 Yes
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Tyler, Ron American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists 208 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Minks, Louise The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists) 112 Yes
1989 Pennington, Estill Curtis Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art 200 Yes
1989 Wilmerding, John American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 330 Yes
1988 Berry-Hill Galleries American Paintings V 1988 180 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts 328 Yes
1988 Herbert F Johnson Museum Nature Transcribed, David Johnson The Landscapes and Still Lifes
(Exhibition catalog)		 87 Yes
1988 Howat, John K American Paradise World of the Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 346 Yes
1988 McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 Yes
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Novak, Barbara Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection 326 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Ferber, Linda S.; William H. Gerdts The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites (The Brooklyn Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)		 288 Yes
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 106 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Gerdts, William H Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939 292 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz
(Exhibition catalog)		 180 Yes
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Eisler, Colin American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 38 No
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1976 Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1976 Chambers, Bruce W Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from
(Exhibition catalog)		 93 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gerdts, William H Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 152 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward) The Hudson River and Its Painters 207 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William H 19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1969 Chapellier Galleries American Art Selections Turn of the Century 95 Yes
1969 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The American Scene A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 74 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1968 Townsend, Benjamin (others) This New Man A Discourse in Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 217 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1965 Everson Museum of Art American Painting from 1830 63 Yes
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
Brock, Mark L. Selections II (Brock & Co.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 46 Yes
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