Academy of Design 1987 Brandeis University, Creative Arts Award for Painting 1973 Guggenheim Fellowship 1961 Longview Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1942 Midwestern Artists Competition 1st prize 1941 St. Paul Gallery Scholarship 1940–41 The President’s Scholarship Minneapolis School of Fine Arts 1939 Alfred Pillsbury Scholarship Selected public collections Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. References Suggested reading Sandler, Irving H. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Schimmel, Paul and Stein, Judith E., The Figurative fifties: New York figurative expressionism: New York: Rizzoli, 1988. External links Detailed list of exhibitions http://www.procuniarworkshop.com/biography-of/lester-johnson.html James Goodman Gallery https://web.archive.org/web/20110713075056/http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/artists_bio.cfm?fid=199 Denise Cade Gallery http://www.denisecadegallery.com/artist-johnson.php New York Times Obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/arts/design/09johnson.html?src=me Star Tribune Obituary http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/95982914.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc%3A_Yyc%3AaUU Lester Johnson online 1919 births 2010 deaths Artists from Minneapolis Abstract expressionist artists 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists National Academy of Design members People from Springs, New York 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters