Florence native honored with U.S. Postage Stamp
Harlem Renaissance painter William H. Johnson, a Florence native, now has one of his paintings featured on a U.S. Postage Stamp.
It was unveiled Wednesday by Johnson’s nephews at the Florence Museum of Art, Science and History. About 100 people came out for the event.
Johnson’s family says he would have been proud of this day.
“We always thought of him as being a great, he was a great artist because we even we were coming up I mean we knew that we had a great person in our family and like I say today kind of tops it all,” said William Cooper, Johnson’s nephew.
Johnson is recognized as a major figure in 20th Century American Art. He is known for his colorful, folk-inspired scenes of African-American daily life.
Johnson was born in 1901 and died in 1970.