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Chalk, crayon and wash on paper · 1979
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Street Scene Series
1979 · Chalk, crayon and wash on paper
41 1/4 × 29 5/8 in. (104.8 × 75.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lester Johnson
American, 1919–2010
WA-00022120
Minneapolis, MN, USA
PaintingAbstract Expressionism
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Lester Johnson was an American painter and draughtsman working in oil and charcoal whose gestural, figurative paintings emerged in the postwar New York art scene. His work employed loose, energetic mark-making and a muted palette to convey psychological states rather than descriptive likeness, maintaining figurative grounding while engaging with existential themes central to mid-century abstraction.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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