- Jean Johanson
Jean Louise P. Johanson (October 3, 1911 – March 1, 2000) was an American sculptor, mosaic artist, and jewelry designer.
She was a student of sculptor
Dudley Pratt , and took two summer classes withAlexander Archipenko during his visits to theUniversity of Washington in the 1930s. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1934. She had a solo show at theSeattle Art Museum in 1944 and won numerous gallery awards during her career.Johanson produced sculptural ornament for several buildings in the Seattle metropolitan area. She produced freestanding works as well, including a bronze fountain installed at Seattle's
Westlake Center . She was also known for her pebble mosaics. Joseph Young called her "among the foremost in the use of sandcast pebble mosaics". Her mosaic "Men Come and Go Like Waves of the Sea," named after a quotation attributed toChief Seattle , is installed at thePacific Science Center inSeattle, Washington .Johanson was the wife of architect
Perry Johanson .References
*Beers, Carole. "Jean Louise Johanson, Seattle artist." "Seattle [Washington] Times," night final edition, March 5, 2000.
*citation|title=Art in Our Community|first=Bernice Starr|last=Moore|publisher=Caxton|year=1947|page=163.
* Seattle Arts Commission, "A Field Guide to Seattle's Public Art", Seattle Arts Commission, 1991
*citation|last=Young|first=Joseph|title=Mosaics: Principles and Practice|publisher=Reinhold|year=1963|page=66.
*Graduation date from death notice in [http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june00/obits0600.html Columns: The University of Washington alumni magazine] , June 2000.External links
* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/hupy&CISOPTR=465&REC=1 Photograph of Jean Johanson] , 1937, by Ernst Kassowitz in the Modern Photographers Collection of the
University of Washington .
* [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2VXZ Men Come and Go Like the Waves of the Sea] on Waymarking.com.
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