Alma Johnson

Artist Details

• First Name Alma
• Middle Name Louise
• Maiden Name Johnson
• Alternate Name(s) Alma Louise Johnson
• Surname Johnson
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date 1885
• Birth Place Rockford, Illinois
• Death Date 1959
• Death Place Moline, Illinois
• Ethnicity Swedish-American
• Active In Moline, Illinois
  
  Rockford, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training 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
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 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.
• Publications “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.”
• Memberships Augustana Art Association, Rockford, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 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
• Biography 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)