Fuji - Sun and Moon

 

Barbara L. Johnson

  1927 - 2021 (biography)

c. 1980  

mixed technique color relief 

13 x 11 7/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

6 of 6  

pencil titled and editioned, lower left margin 

 

thin fibrous Japanese wove 

published 

artist 

24682 

$400.00 

Barbara Johnson lived in Japan from about 1976 to 1981, while her husband was stationed at various port cities as a U.S. Fishery attache. This period of time greatly influenced her style, as she left behind representational compositions in favor of the purely abstract. In this piece she depicts Mt. Fuji crowned by a celestial orb - whether the sun or the moon is up to the viewer - and a backdrop of textures coaxed forth by a variety of overlapping media.