#lester johnson

[oldsardens]

Lester Johnson - City Crowd. 1997

[bossymarmalade]

Lester Johnson, "The Sorceress and The Dreamtime Spirits" (1974)

[justineportraits]

Lester Johnson Three City Girls 1987

[psikonauti]

Lester Johnson (American, 1919–2010)

Head with Plant, 1959

Oil on paper

[annexia]

Continuum (1974) 

Lost mural by Detroit artist Lester Johnson (b. 1937)

c/o Josh Lipnik

[acardinalisred]

lester johnson

[cupofmeat]

"Beethoven with Stove", Lester Johnson, 1964. Oil on canvas.

[books0977]

Pare Messina #3 (1992). Lester Johnson (American, 1919-2010). Oil on canvas.

Johnson was an abstract painter until 1954 when he started to capture the essence of the city. He painted the quick tempo of those who lived out impersonal careers amid skyscrapers and never looked up, the slouched gait of the inured urbanite, and aggressively beautiful women. These characteristics abound in both the subject matter and the formal properties of his work.