William H. Johnson Coloring Book

Closed, opens at 10amIndependent shop in Belltown

Available from SAM Shop/Info when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Coloring book with staple binding featuring 22 images by William H. Johnson Born in South Carolina to a poor African American family, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) moved to New York at age seventeen. He worked a variety of jobs to pay for an art education at the prestigious National Academy of Design, where he earned numerous awards and the respect of his teachers and fellow students. Johnson spent the late 1920s in France, absorbing the lessons of modernism. As a result, his work became more e