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In 2019, the Arkansas Legislature created John H. Johnson Day to pay tribute to his legacy and to help support a museum (his childhood home) named in his honor in Arkansas City. The Friends of the John H. Johnson Museum suggested November 1 as the date for the holiday because that was the date the first issue of Ebony was published. [18]
Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting You Are an Artist, which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series.
John Henry Vanderpoel (November 15, 1857 – May 2, 1911), born Johannes (Jan) van der Poel, [1] was a Dutch-American artist and teacher, best known as an instructor of figure drawing. His book The Human Figure , a standard art school resource featuring numerous drawings based on his teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , was ...
Lawrence Joseph Bader (December 2, 1926 – September 16, 1966), also known as John Francis "Fritz" Johnson, was an American cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio, who disappeared while on a fishing trip on Lake Erie on May 15, 1957.
Fred G. Johnson (January 1892, Chicago, Illinois – 11 May 1990, Sun City, Arizona [1]) was a prolific sideshow banner artist whose career spanned 65 years. His banner paintings were displayed at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933, called A Century of Progress , and by circuses such as Ringling Brothers , Barnum & Bailey , and Clyde Beatty . [ 2 ]
The first mass book burning in Amsterdam took place later, in 1526. Thereafter, public book burning remained part of life in the Habsburg Netherlands for much of the 16th century, Anabaptist and Calvinist writings later joining the Lutheran ones in the flames. Yet despite this relentless campaign, Protestant writings continued to proliferate.
John F. Carlson Ice-Bound Locks by John Fabian Carlson, oil on canvas board, 12 x 16 inches Amundsen Polar Expedition of 1914, oil on canvas, 40 x 52 inches, by John F. Carlson. John Fabian Carlson (May 5, 1874 – May 19, 1945) was a Swedish-born American Impressionist painter.
Johnson produced 13 known unbound pages of his enigmatic A Book About Death from 1963 to 1965. Consisting of cryptic texts and drawings (mostly) by Johnson, they were mailed a few at a time, randomly, and offered for sale via a classified ad in The Village Voice., [18] thus very few people ever received all the pages.