Discipline: Visual Art

Bradford Johnson

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: East Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995

From the Bradford Johnson:

"I look and see a fierce, beautiful planet and paint to take a measure of our common passage through it. I rely upon the stamp of childhood recollections, distant events in old photographs and the wonder of building a painting image up in layers of medium and choices."

Portrait by Sharona Jacobs

Studios

Mixter

Bradford Johnson worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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