Accessibility DescriptionPanel text reads: At BMC, summer 1944, I studied direct carving with José de Creeft and ⅔ dimensional design with Josef Albers. Above is a diorite stone I found in a field at BMC and carved under De Creeft’s inspiring tutelage. What I learned from Josef Albers’ approach to the relativity of visual elements has changed my life! His theories have provided the foundation from which I have developed my own way of exposing students to the visual fundamentals basic to all art forms. I am continuing to learn from Albers’ teaching as I pursue printmaking problems in my own creative endeavors. Examples of intaglio / relief prints are shown here. Margaret Kenndard Johnson 9/5/95 About the Artist Margaret Kennard Johnson was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1918. A resident of Princeton, New Jersey, she is married and has two daughters. She received her degrees from Pratt Institute (BFA) and the University of Michigan (Master of Design). She further studied at Black Mountain College with Josef Albers and Jose de Creeft; at Princeton Graphic Workshop with Judith Brodsky and with printmakers and calligraphers in Japan, where she resided from 1975 to 1983. She taught at The Museum of Modern Art, Pratt Institute, Drake University, Texas State College for Women, Princeton Adult School, Princeton Art Association, the Tokyo American Club in Japan, and was visiting artist at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking. Her awards include the New Jersey State Museum, the Hunterdon Art Center and the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commision Purchase Awards. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Europe; her work was included in group shows held in London, Tokyo, Sao Paolo [sic], New York City, Newark and Trenton. Her works are in the collections of The British Museum, the Tochigi Prefectural Museum, the American Embassy in Tokyo, Minnesota Art Museum, Princeton University Firestone Library, The Newark Public Library, the Rockefeller Medical School, the New Jersey Bicentennial Commission, as well as in numerous private and corporate collections. She is represented by various galleries in the United States and Japan. She is co-author of a book on contemporary Japanese prints, Japanese Prints Today: Tradition with Innovation. and has contributed articles to Printnews,

Journal of the Print World and the International Journal on Contemporary Printmaking. Searching the Unknown (Antarctic Series) (1988), Relief, 18 ½” x26” Edition 1/10 Past Presence N 1990 / Margaret • K • Jonson Wall (1972-73), Intaglio/relief, 22 ½” x28” Edition 1/25 Of Ink and Paper / The Work of Margaret Kennard Johnson

Dimensions24 x 18 inches

Rights StatementIn copyright

CreditGift of Margaret Kennard Johnson

CitationMargaret Kennard Johnson, Albers and de Creeft: Lifetime Influence, 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.

Collection 1995 Remembering Black Mountain College Exhibition and Alumni Reunion Collection

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