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A View Down Akersgate, Oslo by William H. Johnson / American Art
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A View Down Akersgate, Oslo

ca. 1935 William H. Johnson Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died: Central Islip, New York 1970 oil on burlap 25 1/4 x 31 1/4 in. (64.2 x 79.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Harmon Foundation 1967.59.930 Smithsonian American Art Museum
4th Floor, Luce Foundation Center



This view shows two imposing churches in the center of Oslo, Norway: the copper-domed Trinity Church and Saint Olav’s Church in the background. Hints of blossoms evoke a change of season, and William H. Johnson painted intense, expressionistic hues in the buildings and streets, perhaps to capture the emotional undercurrents of a gray, late-winter day.

Keywords

Architecture Exterior - religious - church

Cityscape - Norway - Akersgate

Cityscape - street

Figure(s) in exterior - urban

painting

paint - oil

fabric - burlap

metal - support added

About William H. Johnson

Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died: Central Islip, New York 1970

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