Mitchell Johnson San Francisco Boxed Notecards Set now available at Amazon and Bay Area Museum and Bookstores

 

San Francisco Boxed Notecards is set #7 of seven new Mitchell Johnson notecard sets being released in January, 2025. Each of these seven limited-edition boxed sets of notecards are beautifully designed and feature 20 blank cards of 5 different paintings (4 cards of each) and 20 blank envelopes. The seven themes in this series capture the gamut of places that inspire Johnson's work: Amalfi Coast, North Truro (Cape Cod), Paris, Maine, Race Point (Provincetown), Newfoundland and of course, San Francisco. The photos below, included with each Amazon listing, provide a clear description of the contents of the set you are considering. A biographical flysheet accompanies each set and the colorful notecards are printed on high quality stock and are perfect for writing correspondence and thank you notes. The San Francisco set includes compositions based on views from 1750 Taylor Street (Russian Hill), 555 California Street, Chinatown and the Presidio. Mitchell Johnson moved to Palo Alto, California from New York City in 1990 to work for the artist, Sam Francis. He settled in California after meeting his wife, author/chef Donia Bijan.

Mitchell Johnson studied painting, drawing and art history at Staten Island Academy, Randolph-Macon College, The Washington Studio School, The New York Studio School, The Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts and in 1990 received an MFA in Painting from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Johnson's paintings are in the permanent collections of over 35 museums including Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna in Rome, Museo Morandi in Bologna, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco and Bornholms Kunstmuseum in Denmark. A full list of museum collections is under the biography tab on his website. Johnson's paintings have appeared in numerous feature films including The Holiday (2006), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and It's Complicated (2009). Johnson has been a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Borgo Finocchieto in Tuscany and The LeWitt House in Praiano, Italy.

Three Chairs Painting in March, 2022 WSJ Magazine

 

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Art Scene Los Angeles Review of 2008 Mitchell Johnson exhibit at Terrence Rogers Fine Art

 

"Bornholm," 2008 40x70 inches oil/canvas

It is hard to pull off an Elmer Bischoff sort of look these days without appearing quaint, but Mitchell Johnson manages this. He did not in fact study in the Bay Area but at places like Parsons, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, yet the artist is apparently connected enough to the rolling hills of what could be New England that he convincingly presents bird's eye views of the countryside, of farms and wood houses constructed of puzzle pieces of color (one senses an appreciation of Cezanne in Truro). In fact, this is a departure or a tangent for an artist who normally creates abstract work built up of geometric color. What makes this series interesting is the way in which images lace together a brushy, poetic kind of geometry in paint that does not settle in the eye for depictions of nature. Quick, sharp lines and cubes fix farm houses and structures firmly in time. The result is something authentic and felt (especially Bornholm). It does not look like forced or corny gestural realism; there is structure enough that you trust this vision comes from disciplined looking, thought and training (Terence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica). 

-ART Scene LA, March, 2008

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Cap D'Ail Swimming Pool painting in the March 7, 2022 New Yorker Magazine

 

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North Truro (Green Sun) painting in the March 6, 2022 New York Times Magazine across from The Ethicist

 

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Truro and New York City Paintings on the inside back cover of the February Architectural Digest Magazine

 

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Striped Chair Painting in the February 27, 2022 New York Times Magazine

 

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Truro Green Door Painting in the February, 2022 WSJ Magazine

 

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Truro Green Door Painting in the February 13, 2022 New York Times Magazine

 

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Paris Painting in February 6, 2022 New York Times Magazine

 

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Three Chairs Painting in the January 23, 2022 New York Times Magazine

 

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Mitchell Johnson painting "Paris (Green)" in November 21, 2021 New York Times Magazine

 

The Mitchell Johnson painting, "Paris (Green)" on the inside backcover of the November 21, 2021 New York Times Magazine.

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Mitchell Johnson Sinalunga Painting in November 14, 2021 New York Times Magazine

 

Mitchell Johnson painting, "Sinalunga" in the November 14, 2021 New York Times Magazine.

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Two Mitchell Johnson paintings on the backcover of the March 8, 2021 New Yorker Magazine

 

Two Mitchell Johnson paintings, "Yellow Table" and "Water Towers" on the backcover of the March 8, 2021 New Yorker Magazine.

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Mitchell Johnson Painting "Truro (Nine Pickets)" in NY Times Magazine August 4, 2019 (Ad #102)

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Ad #100 studio photo in NY Times Magazine July 21, 2019

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Ad #94 Lower East Side Painting in the New York Times Magazine May 12, 2019

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#79 New York Times T Magazine Women's Fashion Issue August 19, 2018

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#43 New York Times T Culture Sunday April 23, 2017

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#34 New York Times T Style Travel Magazine, Sunday, May 22, 2016

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