1919 - 2010
During the 1940s, Lester F. Johnson studied at the Minneapolis (Minnesota) School of Art, the St. Paul Art School, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York City. He has recieved many awards, scholarships, and fellowships. The Minneapolis School of Fine Arts honored him with the President's Scholarship in 1940-41. He was also awarded a Longfellow Fellowship from M.I.T. in 1961, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting in 1973.
Between 1950 and today, he has had over thirty solo exhibitions. He has been represented by the Zabriskie Gallery, New York and his work had been shown at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
His paintings are included in public collections at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. For many years he was on the faculty of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University.
Johnson is a member of Provincetown Art Workshop's Board of Directors as well as a fellow at Yale University's Trumbull College. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Between 1950 and today, he has had over thirty solo exhibitions. He has been represented by the Zabriskie Gallery, New York and his work had been shown at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
His paintings are included in public collections at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. For many years he was on the faculty of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University.
Johnson is a member of Provincetown Art Workshop's Board of Directors as well as a fellow at Yale University's Trumbull College. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.
