Carte Postale Frank Tenney Johnson Western

Frank Tenney Johnson. His style of painting, "The Moonlight Technique", gave the illusion of moonlight and starlight drenching his images with mystery and atmosphere. To paint his pictures he used fingers, knives and brushes. Heu, heu, early years as an illustrstrator à New York. After numerous trips to the west to gather material he finally moved to California and set up his studio in Alhambra. As his easel painting becams popular, he quoi able to concentrate solely on this aspect of his art. In his later years he worked almost exclusively from studio in Cody, Wyoming and many of his studies were based on trips into Yellowstone National Park. This evening painting of two patient saddled ponies tied to a tree is called Silent Night.