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On 17 September 2009 LESTER JOHNSON: 1950s WORKS ON PAPER will open at ACME Fine Art, Boston. This exhibition will include rare watercolor and ink paintings, focusing on landscapes and interiors. A reception from six to eight on Thursday evening (the 17th) will mark the opening. The exhibition will run through 24 October.

Lester Johnson is one of the relative handful of avant-garde artists who abandoned non-figurative painting in the 1950s. Considered to be a second-generation abstract expressionist, the 1950s was a transitional period for Johnson in which he worked in both abstract and figurative styles. Many of the works that will be exhibited in LESTER JOHNSON: 1950s WORKS ON PAPER were painted en plein air during Johnson's time in Provincetown. With a vibrant palette of pure colors, his watercolors feature strong brushstrokes and approach the abstract. Johnson's inks forecast the figuration and psychological content of his later work. By the middle of the decade, his style had become more free and loose, yet figurative, a form of gestural expressionism. In a time of pure abstraction, this experimental figural style was considered radical. Today Johnson is recognized as one of the most important and influential painters of his generation.

Since his first solo exhibition at New York's Artists Gallery in 1951, Johnson's work has been featured in more than 100 solo exhibitions and included in important group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to name just a few. Lester Johnson's work is in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others.

ACME Fine Art’s LESTER JOHNSON: 1950s WORKS ON PAPER will be on view at the gallery until 24 October 2009.

For further information about this exhibition or other gallery events, please contact the gallery at 617.585.9551, or via e-mail at info@acmefineart.com.

ACME Fine Art and Design is located in Boston's Back Bay at 38 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116. Gallery hours are 11:00am to 5:30pm Tuesday through Saturday.

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