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New York Dancers 5

Name: New York Dancers 5 | Lester Johnson
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 45461

Lester Johnson

$1,150

American (1919–2010)

Date: circa 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP 26/30
Size: 28 in. x 21 in. (71.12 cm x 53.34 cm)

$1,150

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about New York Dancers 5

This crowded scene of New York City shows Lester Johnson’s manner of figurative expressionism.

With the flat and streaked areas of color and the fairly monochrome color scheme, the artist’s depiction of a crowd is captivating for the way in which each figure appears to emerge out of the crowd separately. The lithograph is signed and numbered in pencil.

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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...

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About The Medium: Lithograph

A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.

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