Buffie Johnson

Buffie Johnson studied at University of California, Los Angeles, Art Students League of New York and Académie Julian. Training under Stanley William Hayter is recorded. The field of work recorded is painting, art and visual arts. Employment is recorded with Parsons School of Design. Works named in the authority record are Tennessee Williams and The Wholly Other. Work by Buffie Johnson is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Portrait Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Distinctions recorded are Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Name — Buffie Johnson • Born — 12 February 1912 • Birthplace — New York, New York • Died — 11 August 2006 • Place of death — New York, New York • Education — University of California, Los Angeles • Field — Painting • Movement — Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism

Born in New York City, Johnson studied in her youth at the Académie Julian in Paris and at the Art Students League of New York. She had lessons with Francis Picabia and Stanley William Hayter, and she earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1943, Johnson was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. From 1946 to 1950 she taught at the Parsons School of Design. She received many awards, including fellowships from Yaddo, the Bollingen Foundation, and the Edward Albee Foundation and her work appeared at the Whitney Biennial on multiple occasions. In 1988 she published Lady of the Beasts: Ancient Images of the Goddess and Her Sacred Animals. Twice married – her second husband was the critic Gerald Sykes – Johnson was survived by a daughter. Johnson's work is include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, In 2016 her biography was included in the exhibition catalogue Women of Abstract Expressionism organized by the Denver Art Museum.