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About The Artist: Lester Johnson

Lester Johnson began his painting career as an abstract expressionist, but in the mid-1950s abandoned that style for a distinctive figurative approach in which he pays homage to the modern everyman. Using a somber, limited palette-often only brown, black and dull blue-and applying his paint thickly, he produces strong, powerful canvases which convey a sense of the isolation of the individual. Johnson was born in Minneapolis in 1919. He began his...