Artist

Malvin Gray Johnson

born Greensboro, NC 1896-died New York City 1934
Malvin Gray Johnson, <i>Self Portrait</i>, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the Harmon Foundation  1967.57.30.
Malvin Gray Johnson, Self Portrait, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the Harmon Foundation 1967.57.30.
Also known as
  • Malvin G. Johnson
Born
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Died
New York, New York, 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)