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Joshua Johnson Smithsonian American Art Museum

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    Joshua Johnson, or Johnston, the earliest documented professional African-American painter, was active in Baltimore during the late eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth century. His background, however, remains a mystery. The families and descendants of those whose portraits he painted claim that Johnson was a former slave.

Joshua (Johnston) Johnson - Biography - askART

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    Joshua (Johnston) Johnson (1765 - 1830) was active/lived in Maryland. Joshua Johnson is known for Naive family portrait painting, often with pets. Reportedly America's first professional black artist that was a free man, Joshua Johnson, whose name is written both as Johnson and Johnston, was originally from the West Indies and then came to the American South.

Joshua Johnston (ca. 1763-1832) - BlackPast.org

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    Dec 11, 2010 · Joshua Johnston, also known as Joshua Johnson, was a portraitist active in Baltimore, Maryland between 1790 and 1825, and the first African American to gain recognition as an artist. Primarily a painter of members of the slave-holding aristocracy, he was rediscovered by Baltimore genealogist and art historian J. Hall Pleasants in 1939.

Joshua (Johnston) Johnson - art auction records

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    Joshua Johnson is known for Naive family portrait painting, often with pets. Reportedly America's first professional black artist that was a free man, Joshua Johnson, whose name is written both as Johnson and Johnston, was originally from the West Indies and then came to the American South.

Joshua Johnson - National Gallery of Art

    https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1425.html
    The biography of Joshua Johnson published in 1992 by the National Gallery of Art in the systematic catalogue of its American naive paintings has been updated by new information published in 1996 by Jennifer Bryan and Robert Torchia. Their article, "The Mysterious Portraitist Joshua Johnson" ( Archives of American Art Journal, volume 36, number 2, 1996, 2-7), is the main source for the following …

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