William H. Johnson Coloring Book

$7.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

Coloring book with staple binding featuring 22 images by William H. Johnson Born in South Carolina to a poor African American family, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) moved to New York at age seventeen. He worked a variety of jobs to pay for an art education at the prestigious National Academy of Design, where he earned numerous awards and the respect of his teachers and fellow students. Johnson spent the late 1920s in France, absorbing the lessons of modernism. As a result, his work became more expressive and…