Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)
Joshua Johnson (Johnston)
MSA SC 3520-13555
African American artist
Sources:
Books:
National Museum of American Art. Sharing Traditions: Five Black
Artists in Nineteenth Century America. (Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).
Weekley, Carolyn
J., Stiles Tuttle Colwill, et. al., Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early
American portrait Painter (Williamsburg, VA.: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Folk Art Center; Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1987).
Newspapers:
Perlman, Bennard. "Retrospective
Joshua Johnson Exhibit Was Worth the Wait," The Daily Record, 4
November 1987.
Tasker, Greg. "Hagerstown museum gets
rare paintings by first black portraitist in the country," The Baltimore
Sun, 29 January 1995.
Magazines:
Greene, Carroll., Jr.
"The Search for Joshua Johnson, Early America's Black Portrait Painter,"
American
Visions (February 1988), 14-19.
- Color version as a .max file
Pleasants, J. Hall.
"Joshua Johnston, The First American Negro Portrait Painter," Maryland
Historical Magazine 37 (June, 1942), 121-149.
Journals:
Bryan, Jennifer
and Robert Torchia. "The Mysterious Portraitist Joshua Johnson," Archives
of American Art Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1996), 3-7.
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