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Morgan Burton Johnson
Morgan Burton Johnson was born in Santa Monica, California, on November 25, 1952 to parents Roma Burton (publicity: RKO, MGM Pictures; west coast editor, Seventeen Magazine) and Ar...view moreMorgan Burton Johnson was born in Santa Monica, California, on November 25, 1952 to parents Roma Burton (publicity: RKO, MGM Pictures; west coast editor, Seventeen Magazine) and Arnold Morgan Johnson (freelance Hollywood photographer: Modern Screen, Variety). He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla in 1974 after attending the Lycee du Universite au Dijon in Dijon, France, where he received a Certificate of Foreign Studies in culture in 1968. Although he has received little formal education in art or writing, his artwork is refined and varied, including the mastering of the techniques of oil on canvas, linen, glass, cardboard and wood, watercolor and water media, palette knife, collage and encaustic painting. His styles range from classic realism, pointillism and fauvism to abstract expressionism and minimalism, all reflecting the diversity of the twentieth century. His impressionist and divisionist painting has been the object of his awards and shows, combined with his interpretive poetry. He has written four other books, Condemned To A Life of Painting Pretty Pictures (a trilogy novel with poetry and paintings), 1994; Trees of Other Colors (poetry with paintings), 1994; Circle of the White Buffalo (novel), 1996; and Memories of Aunt Aura (biography), 2000.
The artist started painting at age eight, receiving paid commissions at age twelve. He has completed several murals, two of which are located at the UCSD campus in La Jolla, with one a competition design winner for Discovery Hall, Revelle College, 1971. He has been published in the San Diego Union (1971), the La Jolla Light (1976), the Advocate (1978), the Long Beach Tribune (1978, 1996), the Medford Tribune (1993), the San Francisco Bay Times (1994), National Library of Poetry (1997-2001), Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who In America, and Who’s Who In The World (1997-2002), and is included in two books from American References Publishing: The California Art Review, 1990, and American Artists: A Survey of Leading Contemporaries. He has owned and operated the MorganJ. Gallery in San Diego’s Francis Family Building (1974-75), and between 1975 and 1990 worked in retail and manufacturing management. He currently works in fine art restoration, writing and painting in southern Oregon.view less
Books by Morgan Burton Johnson
Future Present: The Autobiographical Ramblings from the Little Man in the Boat