David Johnson

1827 Born in New York City

1849 First exhibited at the National Academy of Design

1850 Studied with Jasper F. Cropsey; exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1851 First sketching trip in the White Mountains

1858 First exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum

1859 Elected Associate of the National Academy of Design

1861 Elected Academician of the National Academy of Design; first exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association

1867 Spent summer at Lancaster, New Hampshire, with artist James M. Hart and wife

1873–76 Painted with Cropsey (in New York)

1876 Won medal at the U.S. Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; painted The Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia Notch, N.H.; now on display at the New Hampshire State House

1877 Exhibited at the Paris Salon

1878 Won medal from the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

1908 Died in Walden, New York

 

 

 

 

David Johnson, carte de visite; photographer unknown, probably 1860s. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952 (52.605). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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