https://jtheodorejohnson.com/drawings-gallery daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1489260118064-CZYTE3J2TZO58Q7LQ4V6/J.T.J+charcoal.jpg Drawings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1489260118064-CZYTE3J2TZO58Q7LQ4V6/J.T.J+charcoal.jpg Drawings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691432772539-VU4GSHZFX1OI6OP04FW6/Standing+Nude+With+Drape.jpg Drawings - Standing Female Nude with Drape, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691433264098-K3ES9K04Q68MR20AS0IC/Portrait+of+a+Bearded+Man.jpg Drawings - Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691434052492-7M7P43NNO7S1EC3T5Y6U/Portrait+of+a+Society+Woman.jpg Drawings - Portrait of a Society Woman, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691433077227-4DR2PGH03GU7IBZZQWY3/Standing+Male+Nude+with+Hands.jpg Drawings - Male Torso Nude, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691433680871-09APQPROA6PTYTL1TBNN/Female+with+Outstretched+Arms.jpg Drawings - Female Nude with Outstretched Arm, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691434377491-T8HARCNG1XC484JH6JHS/Reclining+Female+Nude+on+Blue+Paper.jpg Drawings - Reclining Female Nude Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691435667300-9DAWCE0NN3QBL5GFNG8Q/Seated+Bearded+Man.jpg Drawings - Seated Bearded Man, 1924 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691435442830-B7T1ADQ1IQWV30UI0P0C/Portrait+of+an+Elderly+Gentleman.jpg Drawings - Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman, 1923 Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691434890118-3OTWEZ8HP4JDL44VZBHR/Back+of+Drawing+Indian+Head+copy.jpg Drawings - Portrait of an Native American (Ghost image on back of drawing) Charcoal on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches This drawing is lost or in a private collection. The faint image is due to the acidity in the fixative used at the time which transferred this drawing onto another drawing over the years. They were pressed together which contributed to this effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691434656069-RIYX3X3TU91YEXPE3X1T/Portrait+Demonstration.jpg Drawings - Portrait of a Woman, @1935 Charcoal and pastel on Michellet/Papier Ingres, 18 x 24 inches This was a demonstration of portrait drawing for his students. https://jtheodorejohnson.com/paintings-gallery daily 1.0 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691437938664-C3JGZHTS6G0ZVRL5UQO8/Portrait+of+Mary+Johnson.jpg Paintings - Portrait of Mary, 1927 Oil on canvas, 26 x 31 3/4 inches Acquired directly from the artist with funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1928 formally in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sold at Sotheby’s in 2016. Exhibited Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, 1928, no. 125, illustrated Chicago, Carson Pirie Scott & Co, Paintings and Water Colors by J. Theodore Johnson, 1928, no. 1 Rockford Art Association, 1936 Chicago, Stevens Hotel, Second National Exhibition of the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc., 1941, no. 102 Literature Marguerite B. Williams, “Young Womanhood,” Chicago Daily News, February 8, 1928 Daniel Catton Rich, “Paintings by Three Chicago Artists,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, 1928, p. 94 Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 159 Edward B. Rowan, “The Painting of J. Theodore Johnson,” Art and Archeology 33, 1932, p. 34, illustrated Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 248 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691437938664-C3JGZHTS6G0ZVRL5UQO8/Portrait+of+Mary+Johnson.jpg Paintings - Portrait of Mary, 1927 Oil on canvas, 26 x 31 3/4 inches Acquired directly from the artist with funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1928 formally in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sold at Sotheby’s in 2016. Exhibited Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, 1928, no. 125, illustrated Chicago, Carson Pirie Scott & Co, Paintings and Water Colors by J. Theodore Johnson, 1928, no. 1 Rockford Art Association, 1936 Chicago, Stevens Hotel, Second National Exhibition of the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc., 1941, no. 102 Literature Marguerite B. Williams, “Young Womanhood,” Chicago Daily News, February 8, 1928 Daniel Catton Rich, “Paintings by Three Chicago Artists,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, 1928, p. 94 Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 159 Edward B. Rowan, “The Painting of J. Theodore Johnson,” Art and Archeology 33, 1932, p. 34, illustrated Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 248 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691436855740-HK5MS5YEZTZUJTMYWTKG/Nude+with+Fan.jpg Paintings - Nude with Fan, 1938 Oil on canvas, 30 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1489259743543-UM56ABEYXQB7YFD6225F/Ed+Sorenson+1943.jpg Paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691437077517-3PSDOBNAD9JC2Q32HJ6X/Cros+de+Cagnes.jpg Paintings - Cros de Cagnes, 1925 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691438562610-FWN5RB7RJ2S8SFZS0CAP/The+Black+Mantilla.jpg Paintings - The Black Mantilla, 1927 Oil on canvas, 26 x 31 3/4 inches Collection the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691437641075-O622SN20IXIIU9B4SZYN/Chicago+Interior+copy.jpg Paintings - Chicago Interior, 1933-1934 Oil on canvas, 28 x 34 inches Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. https://jtheodorejohnson.com/watercolors daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691432553858-93CCY008P96BHEGZNRG7/Stormy+Sea.jpg Watercolors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691432553858-93CCY008P96BHEGZNRG7/Stormy+Sea.jpg Watercolors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691432622088-XUOC8BR3PI8JTLNGF73L/Stormy+Sea.jpg Watercolors - Stormy Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691432566496-LKVL5NYVMXCA5D7QW9I1/Gravel+Pit.jpg Watercolors - Gravel Pit https://jtheodorejohnson.com/murals daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691440396144-FVUL0B8SNY96I2KUKAUS/Huckleberry+Frolic%2C+1937.jpg Murals - Huckleberry Frolic, 1937 Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 x 18 feet Post office of Garden City, New York. The blond haired, blue-eyed man on the left bending down and looking up towards the left (and thus the light flooding in from the large window in the post office) and the man on the right in the straw hat are both self-portraits, and the seated woman with her back to us is his wife (and my mother) Barbara Johnson. She is also the model in the painting Chicago Interior in the exhibition catalogue 1934: A New Deal for Artists, pp. 38-39. He painted Huckleberry Frolic in Vermont during the summer of 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691440396144-FVUL0B8SNY96I2KUKAUS/Huckleberry+Frolic%2C+1937.jpg Murals - Huckleberry Frolic, 1937 Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 x 18 feet Post office of Garden City, New York. The blond haired, blue-eyed man on the left bending down and looking up towards the left (and thus the light flooding in from the large window in the post office) and the man on the right in the straw hat are both self-portraits, and the seated woman with her back to us is his wife (and my mother) Barbara Johnson. She is also the model in the painting Chicago Interior in the exhibition catalogue 1934: A New Deal for Artists, pp. 38-39. He painted Huckleberry Frolic in Vermont during the summer of 1937. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691439067709-PGPZ2H1EJR8KHQOQE267/Garden-City-NY-Post-Office-Mural+copy.jpg Murals - Huckleberry Frolic, 1937 Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 x 18 feet Post office of Garden City, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1691441039934-SSUMZZWPVUCKOQ3JZ8H7/Oak-Park-IL-Post-Office-Mural-60301-M2-3+copy+2.jpg Murals - "'THE OSCEOLA,' FIRST SHIPMENT OF WHEAT FROM CHICAGO, 1839" Oil on Canvas, Oak Park post office in Chicago” These four murals were funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1939. Each depicts a historically significant moment in the area’s history. https://jtheodorejohnson.com/about daily 0.75 2017-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1489260914625-FTHNOK859GT306EIFDV2/image-asset.jpeg About J. Theo Johnson painting in watercolors en plein air in California, c. 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589634d61b631b6956e66511/1489260251843-94RTVMENTL41W8QYC6H8/image-asset.jpeg About