Johnson’s Fighters For Freedom Set For Florence Exhibit

The Florence County Museum has partnered with the Smithsonian American Art Museum to bring Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice to the Florence County Museum starting Feb. 4 through Aug. 10.

This exhibition marks the first national tour of the magnum opus by Florence’s William Henry Johnson entitled Fighters for Freedom.

Johnson painted the series in the mid-1940s, creating a pantheon of historic and contemporary leaders who fought for the freedom of individuals worldwide. The exhibition of 25 works showcasing Johnson’s later iconographic style is on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and features works rarely exhibited outside Washington, D.C.

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