151142980R. Johnson18981977R.Johnsonhttps://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2053/fullLittle is known about the identity of "R. Johnson" other than the information contained in the caption accompanying the painting of the "Sailing Ship Skulda" in Folk Painters of America. Johnson had been working as superintendent of a building in the Bronx and the paintings wre discovered in a trash can after his death. They were recovered and brought to the Kopps, who exhibited the paintings in their shop. Johnson was born in Sweden in 1898, but lived most of his life in the Bronx. He worked as a merchant seaman and all his paintings refer to his years spent traveling the globe, depicting various sailing ships, mostly w/ Swedish names and indicating their course in the titles. The paintings are framed with sailor's rope and embellished with sailor's knots applied to the surface. Only eight or so paintings survive from a total of about fifty that Johnson painted.(1898–1977)R. Johnson