Frank Tenney Johnson

Frank Tenney Johnson was a painter of the Old American West, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as The Johnson Moonlight Technique. Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnsons moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes.

Johnson was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa on his familys farm along the old Overland Trail, near Big Grove, Iowa . Johnsons mother died in December 1886, and the family moved to Wisconsin. He attended Oconomowoc High School in Oconomowoc. In 1893, he enrolled in the Milwaukee School of Art , where he studied with Richard Lorenz, a wellknown painter of western subjects. In 1895, Johnson moved to New York City where he studied with John Henry Twachtman at the Art Students League of New York.

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