To all who are celebrating today: Merry Christmas! A particularly warm greeting to those who are spending their 2023 holiday season away from their loved ones. Here’s to good health and goodwill in 2024.

To help us ring in the day is the brilliant artwork of William H. Johnson, born 1901 in Florence, South Carolina. Johnson’s work and tumultuous life took him through Paris, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Harlem, before he passed in 1970.

You can find the work of Johnson in museums from MOMA to The Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Three Friends. 1944-45

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Folk Family. 1944

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Little Sweet. 1944

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Little Girl in Orange. 1944

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Church on Lenox Avenue. 1939-40

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Header: William H. Johnson. Harlem Cityscape with Church. ~1939-40