Seward johnson sculptures for sale
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John Seward Johnson II
American artist (1930–2020)
John Seward Johnson II (April 16, 1930 – March 10, 2020), also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, was an American artist known for trompe-l'œil painted bronze statues. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and of Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda.
He designed life-size bronze statues that were castings of living people, depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities. A large staff of technicians did the fabrication of the works he designed. Computers and digital technology often were used in the manufacturing process. Sometimes the manufacture was contracted in China. He was the founder of Grounds For Sculpture, a 42-acre (17 ha) sculpture park and museum located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.
Early life and education
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on April 16, 1930.[3] His father was John Seward Johnson I, and his mother was Ruth Dill, the sister of actress Diana Dill, making him a first
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Seward Johnson was born in New Jersey in 1930 and subsequently lived in London, Paris, and Bermuda. He graduated from the college preparatory Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut before attending the University of Maine. Enlisting in the Navy, Johnson spent four years aboard the U.S.S. Gloucester, the only ship hit by enemy fire during the Korean War. Johnson settled in New Jersey to raise a family with his wife and now spends his time in New York City, Nantucket and Key West.
Johnson’s earliest artistic efforts were in painting but as his aesthetic developed, he gravitated more toward sculpture. Having no formal training beyond a series of classes in Cambridge, MA, his first cast work of sculpture won the Award in Steel Art competition which included 7,000 entries. Now famous worldwide for his life-size bronze figurative sculptures, Seward Johnson’s works are exhibited internationally and are included in private collections, museums, and public art collections too numerous to mention. Johnson’s body of work consists of three distinct series: the Celebrating the Familiar man
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Seward was born on April 16, 1930, in New Jersey. He is the son of J. Seward Johnson Sr. and Ruth Dill and the grandson of Robert Wood Johnson Sr.—one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson.
By the age of six, he had lived in London, Paris, Bermuda and New Mexico. Seward and his family lived at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico where they befriended iconic American artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Seward loved the pleasures the Santa Fe desert afforded him and his siblings. As a teenager, he attended the Forman School, a boarding school in Connecticut dedicated to educating students who were struggling in traditional schools. Seward had been diagnosed with dyslexia and the Forman School offered a supportive education designed for dyslexic students. During Seward’s time there, Albert Einstein, who was also dyslexic, was an academic adviser to the school.
In 1950, while attending the University of Maine, Seward interrupted his schooling to enlist in the U. S. Navy. He served for four years during the Korean War. One day, while aboard a U.S. ship in the Wonsan Harbor in N
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