Artist
Malvin Gray Johnson
born Greensboro, NC 1896-died New York City 1934
- Also known as
- Malvin G. Johnson
- Born
- Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
- Biography
Malvin Gray Johnson was active during the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s. He simplified the forms of his subjects and occasionally emphasized his African past by including African imagery in his paintings.
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)