Ellen Foscue Johnson earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University in Durham, NC, in 1960. She received her M.A. in 1964 from Columbia University in New York, majoring in English and comparative literature. She launched a career as a freelance photographer and has given workshops or guest lectures on photography at the International Center of Photography, New York; Peters Valley Craftsmen, Layton, NJ; Wellesley College in Massachusetts; and the University of Vermont, Burlington, among others. Her work can be found in publications including The Garden Way Bread Book (1979), Childhood Development Research (James J. Gallagher, ed., 1975), Women See Men (1977), and The Rights of Children (1974). It can also be found in collections such as The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA and the Hopkins Art Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
Ellen Foscue Johnson
Studios
Putnam
Ellen Foscue Johnson worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…