Alma Johnson

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  • Alma
  • Louise
  • Johnson
  • Alma Louise Johnson
  • Johnson
  • n/a
  • n/a
  • 1885
  • Rockford, Illinois
  • 1959
  • Moline, Illinois
  • Swedish-American
  • Moline, Illinois

    Rockford, Illinois
  • Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • 1905-1906: Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
    1907: Marquette State Normal
    1909-1910 Augustana College, Rockford, Illinois; school of education
    1915-1916: student of Jonas Olof Grafström (1855-1933) at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois
    1924: University of Indiana
    1926:  B.S. from Northwestern University
  • Array
  • Century of Art, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

    1932, 1946, 1952: Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

    1984: Härute – Out Here: Swedish Immigrant Artists in Midwest America. Augustana College, Rockford, Illinois.
  • “Augustana Instructor Dies,” Lutheran Companion, January 28, 1959. Kirn, Mary Em and Sherry Case Maurer. Härute – Out Here: Swedish Immigrant Artists in Midwest America. Augustana College, 1984. Maurer, Sherry. “Against the Odds: Swedish=American Women Artists in the Midwest.”
  • Augustana Art Association, Rockford, Illinois
  • 1916-1924: taught at Luther College, Wahoo, Nebraska

    1926-1950: taught at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

    her students included Alice Lindstrom Dolph, Annette Lindstrom, and Cecile Ryden Johnson
  • Parents:  Reverend George A. Johnson

    Siblings:  Ruth Elizabeth +3

    her students included Alice Lindstrom Dolph, Annette Lindstrom, and Cecile Ryden Johnson

    at Augustana College, she organized exhibitions and receptions, circulated art poster loans, guided the Augustana Art Association; expanded the curriculum to include courses in art appreciation, art history, design, crafts (basketry, textile painting, weaving, block printing)