Signed and dated, 1909, and inscribed, Paris

Oil on canvas

28 ¾ x 36 ¼ inches

Provenance

Private collection, Paris

Private collection, New York

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Francis Morton Johnson was born in Boston in 1878. Like other artistic young men of the period he went to Paris to study and enrolled at the Academy Julian under the tutelage of Jean Paul Laurens. Johnson is mentioned in a 1912 New York Times article in a review of the annual exhibition at the Salon de Artistes François. Other artist in this exhibition included Richard Miller, Aston Knight, Louis Rittman, Preston Dickenson and others.

F. Morton Johnson was member of the Association of American Artist and exhibited with the Paris dealer Galerie Georges Petit. Johnson also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual in both 1908 and 1910.

Johnson is also known for inventing a device for registering the human voice on motion picture films in 1919. Johnson died in Paris in 1931.