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Author Steve Turner to Lecture on Artist William Henry Johnson October 22, 2002 Steve Turner, owner of the Steve Turner Gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif., will present a lecture on artist William H. Johnson at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 125 Bull Street, at 6:30 PM on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002. Co-author of "William H. Johnson: Truth Be Told," Turner is a private collector of works of art by African American artists and rare books and photographs documenting the African American experience in the American West. He is the Founder and President of the Board of The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts whose mission is to encourage, through financial grants, African American and other minority artists in the first half of their careers, and to support scholarship on African American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Turner’s lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition "William Henry Johnson: Expatriate Visions, 1928-1944" which opens at the Charleston Renaissance Gallery, 103 Church Street on Nov. 1 and can be viewed through Jan. 15, 2003. William Henry Johnson was born in Florence, SC and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York. Johnson painted in France from 1926 to 1930. When he returned to the USA, he opened a studio in Harlem. He had his first solo art exhibition in New York in 1941. His vibrant paintings represent many subjects, ranging from scenes from everyday life to historical commemoratives. Johnson is now considered a major American artist and preeminent portrayer of the African American experience. Contact:Virginia Friedman |