Barred Door, Rocky Hill Meeting House
1910 · Gelatin silver print
6 3/4 × 4 11/16" (17.1 × 11.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Clifton Johnson
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6
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Clifton Johnson was an American illustrator and writer whose pen-and-ink drawings captured rural and small-town American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His narrative illustrations appeared in periodicals and books, often paired with his own travel writing and photography. Johnson documented the American landscape through both image and text, creating a distinctive body of work that merged illustration, reportage, and geographic observation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
- The Met1 published
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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National Portrait Gallery
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