Northern Traditional Dancer

About The Artist: Walt Johnston

Simply put, Walt Johnston was a contemporary realist. He looked at everything in the most modern way, saw the underlying abstract form, then brought that vision to a stunning reality as a painting using the most ancient means. The result was always the same, a picture so complete it is often mistaken for a photograph. Walt was born in Washington DC in 1932. The son of a successful architect, he learned to draw at a very early age, drawing not...