Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Mitchell Johnson North Truro Boxed Notecards Now available at Amazon

 

North Truro Notecards is set #1 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. Mitchell Johnson has been making annual painting trips to Cape Cod since 2005. He teaches a master color class at Truro Center for the Arts each September.

Mitchell Johnson's color- and shape-driven paintings exist at the intersection of color theory, art history, nostalgia, and observed experience. His work is included in the permanent collections of over 35 museums and has been exhibited alongside works by Milton Avery, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wolf Kahn, and Richard Diebenkorn. The legendary art critic Donald Kuspit wrote about Johnson's work in Whitehot Magazine: "Johnson is a master of abstraction, as his oddly constructivist paintings show, but of unconscious feeling, for his geometry serves to contain and with that control the strong feelings implicit in his strong colors. Apart from that, his paintings are art historically important, because they seamlessly fuse abstraction and realism, which Kandinsky tore apart to the detriment of both even as he recognized that they were implicitly inseparable, tied together in a Gordian knot, as they masterfully are in Johnson's paintings."


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