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Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 – 1939)
Return from the Hunt (1934)
oil on canvas
25 × 30 inches
signed and dated lower right

VERSO
Titled

According to Johnson biographer Harold McCracken, “The Frank Tenney Johnson nocturne was something he developed to the point of perfection where it can be considered pretty much his own art form. The most difficult aspect of his nocturne was to achieve the proper simulation of the natural colors of subject and landscape under the glow of moonlight or starlight; colors that varied in density from the close foreground into the farthest depth of the background, as well as the shifting values of light and shadows.”

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Dallas, TX
Jo and Len Braarud, La Conner, WA 1993
Private Collection, Bellevue, WA 1997
Private Collection, Tucson, AZ

98

Frank Tenney Johnson

1874 – 1939

Return from the Hunt (1934)
oil on canvas
25 × 30 inches
signed and dated lower right
Sold at Auction: $327,250
Condition ReportSurface condition is good. Painting has been lined. Faint bar mark in upper-right corner. Crack in paint in upper-right quadrant, in mountain. Seven specks of inpainting in sky.

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