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[https://wcmfa.org/exhibitions/current/joshua-johnson-portraitist-of-early-american-baltimore/ by Groh Gallery 17/4/21 MFA] | [https://wcmfa.org/exhibitions/current/joshua-johnson-portraitist-of-early-american-baltimore/ by Groh Gallery 17/4/21 MFA] | ||
This exhibition, organized by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, brings together the work of Joshua Johnson (ca. 1763-1824) for the first time since 1988. Often considered the first professional African-American artist, Johnson was a freed slave who achieved a remarkable degree of success as a portraitist in his lifetime by painting affluent patrons in his native Baltimore. Johnson’s subjects consisted of politicians, doctors, clergymen, merchants, and sea captains. Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore contextualizes Johnson both historically and culturally and explores further the key forms of natural symbolism represented in his paintings. | This exhibition, organized by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, brings together the work of Joshua Johnson (ca. 1763-1824) for the first time since 1988. Often considered the first professional African-American artist, Johnson was a freed slave who achieved a remarkable degree of success as a portraitist in his lifetime by painting affluent patrons in his native Baltimore. Johnson’s subjects consisted of politicians, doctors, clergymen, merchants, and sea captains. Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore contextualizes Johnson both historically and culturally and explores further the key forms of natural symbolism represented in his paintings. | ||
=====The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839–60===== | |||
[https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-daguerreian-era-and-early-american-photography-on-paper-1839-1860 by THE MET 1/10/04] | |||
The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States. | |||
