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Classroom Scene was painted by William H. Johnson, who studied art in New York and lived in France, Denmark, and Norway. Upon returning to the United States in 1938, he began painting images of African American life, drawing on both his youth in rural South Carolina and life in New York City.
Source: Paintings by African Americans from the collection of the National Museum of American Art: A Book of Postcards (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art in cooperation with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991).
Pictured: William H. Johnson, 1901–1970, Classroom Scene, about 1938–1946, oil on plywood, 27 3/4 x 33 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation.