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Lester F. Johnson (1919-2010)
Man in Woodcut, 1953-1957
the set of six woodcut prints with frontispiece and introduction by Burt Chernow
each variously numbered, signed and dated in pencil (on the paper, lower edge)
woodcut print on Kitakana paper
various sizes
the album: 22 x 1814 in. (55.9 x 46.4 cm.)
Printed by Chip Elwell; published by Cone Editions, Port Chester, New York, 1985.
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Lester Johnson was a very close friend who studied under Hans Hofmann alongside Wolf Kahn in the late 1940s. In 1951, Kahn organized the 813 Broadway Exhibition, including Johnson’s work, which gave rise to the artists’ cooperative Hansa Gallery.

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