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6.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON - EVENTS IN HIS ART CAREER

Born - Florence, S.C. in 1901
1921-1926 - Studied at National Academy of Design
1926 (Winter) - Studied and painted Paris (Portraits and 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 and Cologne)
Paris, France
Tunisia (Kairwan; Sousse; Hammamet; Nabeul)
1933 - France, (Martique)
Denmark, (Kerteminde)
1934 - Across Jutland by bicycle, also to Esbjerg and Aarhus, Denmark 
1935 - Oslo, Norway (Met Pola Gauguin; Edward Munch)
Lillehammer, Norway 
1936 - Jolster, Norway, also Sunnfiord and Volda - by bicycle
1937
1938 - Spring, took boat from Aalesund to Tromsoe and back to Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands then from Norway to Stockholm, 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 and traveling; 
1930 Florence, S.C. and Marquette, Mich., 1931 & 1933 Copenhagen & Odense, Denmark; 
1934 Esbjerg & Aarhus, Denmark; 1935 Oslo, Norway; 1936 Volda & Aalesund, Norway; 
1937 Trondheim, Norway; 1938 Tromsoe, Norway and 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 St. 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

Prepared from the Harmon Foundation file
Division of Cultural Research Department of Art
Fisk University
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

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