William H. Johnson"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me." William H. Johnson An essential figure in modern American art, William H. Johnson (1901 1970) was a virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, who produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decades, continents,