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WILLIAM H. JOHNSON
Events in His Art Career

Born - Florence, S.C. 1901 
1921-1926 - Studied at National Academy of Design

1926 (Winter) - Studied & Painted Paris (Portraits & Still Life)

1927 - Moret-sur-Loing, France (Landscape Painting)

1928 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (Landscape painting)

1929 - Met Danish artist Holcha Krake at Cagnes; traveled to Corsica; Nice; France & Belgium; Esborg and Odense, Denmark

1929 - December, to New York; received Harmon Gold Award in Fine Arts

1930 - Florence, S.C. home Kerteminde, Denmark - Married Holcha Krake

1930 - 1932 - Lived and worked in fishing village, Kerteminde

1933 - Germany (Hamburg & Cologne) Paris, France Tunisia (Kairwan; Sousse; Hammamet; Nabeul)

1933 - France, (Martique) Denmark, (Kerteminde)

1934 - Across Jutland by bicycle, asl to Esbjerg & Aarhus, Denmark

1935 - Oslo, Norway (Met Pola Gaugin; Edward Munch) Lillehammer, Norway

1936 - Jolster, Norway; Also Sunn [[striketrhough]] e [[/strikethrough]] fiord and Volda - by bicycle

1937

1938 - Spring, took boat from Aalesund to Tromsoe and back to Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands then from Norway to Stockholm, and Gaevle and Vaesteras, Sweden 
To Norway (Oslo)
To Denmark (Kerteminde and Copenhagen)

1938 - Fall - to New York

1943 - Holcha Krake Johnson died in New York

1944 - Florence, S.C. home

1946 - Return to Denmark

1947 - Return to New York and hospitalization

Exhibits - 1927-Paris; 1928-29 Nice; 1930,31-33 Harmon Foundation in New York & Travelling;
1930-Florence, S.C. & Marquette, Mich.,1931 & 1933 Copenhagen & Odense, Denmark;
1934-Esbjerg & Aarhus, Denmark; 1935-Oslo, Norway; 1936-Volda & Aalesund, Norway;
1937-Trondheim, Norway; 1938-Tromsoe, Norway & Stockholm & Gaevle, Sweden; 1939-New York - Artists' Gallery; 1940 Harlem Art Center; 1941 Alma Reed Gallery; 1943 & 1944 - Wakefield Gallery; Marquie' Gallery;1946 N.Y.Public Library, 135th Street Branch; 1947-Denmark (Copenhagen. 1956-Retrospective Exhibits. Included in 20 collections abroad; Work in National Museum, Stockholm; Gaevle Museum (Sweden); Trondheim Museum 

(Norway), and others.

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