01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #63

MARSHALL JOHNSON, JR, (American, 1850-1921) 

Two Ships 

Oil on canvas 

23 x 28 in., frame: 30 x 35 in.

Private collection

Marshall Johnson, (American, 1850-1921), is renowned for his atmospheric, dramatic marine paintings that depict ships at sea with realistic detail. The artist was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850 and died there in 1921.

In 1868, Johnson was a sailor aboard the Sunbeam, bound for South America. The ship burned at sea in 1871 and the artist was one of 12 survivors who was rescued off the coast of South America. He soon returned to Boston, where he studied at the Lowell Institute and with noted marine painter William E. Norton. From 1887-1890, he studied in Holland, France and England. When he returned to America, he opened a professional studio on Boston's India Wharf.

Johnson was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Copley Society of Boston (1900) and the Jordan Art Galleries of Boston. In 1923, the Vose Galleries of Boston gave him a Memorial Exhibition. More on Marshall Johnson

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