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John Seward Johnson II (April 16, 1930 – March 10, 2020), also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, was an American artist known for trompe-l'œil painted bronze statues. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and of Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda .
Seward was born on April 16, 1930, in New Jersey. He is the son of J. Seward Johnson Sr. and Ruth Dill and the grandson of Robert Wood Johnson Sr.—one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson. By the age of six, he had lived in London, Paris, Bermuda and New Mexico.
Seward Johnson enjoyed tracing motifs repeated throughout art history and inviting the viewer to join in the fun. These “visceral moments,” as he referred to them, were sculpted in detail and poured in bronze. Sometimes, he amplified these ordinary images, and made them seem larger than life.
Seward Johnson was born in New Jersey in 1930 and subsequently lived in London, Paris, and Bermuda. He graduated from the college preparatory Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut before attending the University of Maine.
It has been more than a year since J. Seward Johnson Jr., the artist who blurred the line between art and reality with his bronze sculptures, passed away at the age of 89. The Seward Johnson Atelier and the sculpture garden he founded are poised to continue his legacy.
Mar 19, 2020 · Johnson, known to those who knew him as Seward, has left a legacy of hundreds of sculptures in public and private collections, many of them in New Jersey. He established Grounds for...
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May 3, 2014 · With so much of his artwork in the park, Johnson picked one sculpture that had a particular meaning for him: a couple on a picnic blanket. The man’s belt is unbuckled.
