{"id":2374,"date":"2011-09-22T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:29:56","slug":"johnson-eugene-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, EUGENE HARPER, 1916-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Illustrator; painter; violinist.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Birmingham, July 6, 1916.\u00a0Parents&#8211;James and Ida Wade\u00a0Johnson. \u00a0Married&#8211; Mildred Anita Daniels.\u00a0 Children&#8211; three.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Sahira Tamira Malik. Education&#8211; Birmingham schools; studied music and art in France at the Studio of Gene Paul Lawrence and at the Academie Julian; studied at the Art Institute of Chicago; Pratt Institute; and the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York. Worked as an assistant to Beauford and Joseph Delaney, who painted WPA murals in New York City during the\u00a0Great Depression.\u00a0 Served in US Army Special Services, WWII.\u00a0 Began his career as a violinist; performed internationally in Europe and Africa.\u00a0 After he injured his wrist in a horseback riding accident, he turned to art as a career;\u00a0 worked as an illustrator and comic-strip artist; illustrated more than 200 books and has paintings hung in museums and galleries.\u00a0 Contributed articles to many journals and books. Lived in Africa the latter part of his life; after 1993 concentrated on painting historic events of Oman.\u00a0 Granted Omani citizenship. Died March 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Illustrators of Books for Young People, 2nd ed.<\/p>\n<p>Something about the Author online.<\/p>\n<p>Pulp Artists website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenny.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Holt, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Piankhy the Great.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 T. Nelson, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Illustrator; painter; violinist.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Birmingham, July 6, 1916.\u00a0Parents&#8211;James and Ida Wade\u00a0Johnson. \u00a0Married&#8211; Mildred Anita Daniels.\u00a0 Children&#8211; three.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Sahira Tamira Malik. Education&#8211; Birmingham schools; studied music and art in France at the Studio of Gene Paul Lawrence and at the Academie Julian; studied at the Art Institute of Chicago; Pratt Institute; and the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}