Waiting
by Gary Keesler
Title
Waiting
Artist
Gary Keesler
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography
Description
Waiting, is a statue by John Seward Johnson Jr, depicts a businessman reading a newspaper, and is installed at Australia Square in central Sydney, Australia and also in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River where this image was captured.
Exceptionally wonderful surreal imaging suitable for professional waiting rooms, interior designers and available in Canvas, Acrylic, Metal, as well as awesome Framed Prints.
John Seward Johnson II (born 1930) also known as J. Seward Johnson, Jr. and Seward Johnson is an American artist known for his trompe l'oeil painted bronze statues.
He is a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson) and Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda.
He is best known for his life-size bronze statues, which actually are castings of living people of all ages depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities.
A large staff of technicians performed the fabrications.
Johnson was born in New Jersey.
His father was John Seward Johnson I, and his mother was Ruth Dill, the sister of actress Diana Dill, therefore making him a first cousin of actor Michael Douglas.
Johnson grew up with five siblings: Mary Lea Johnson Richards, Elaine Johnson, Diana Melville Johnson, Jennifer Underwood Johnson, and James Loring "Jimmy" Johnson.
Johnson attended Forman School for dyslexics and University of Maine, where he majored in poultry husbandry, but did not graduate.
Johnson also served four years in the Navy during the Korean War.
Johnson worked for Johnson & Johnson until he was fired by his uncle Robert Wood Johnson II, in 1962.
His early artistic efforts focused on painting, after which he turned to sculpture in 1968.
Other examples of his statues include: The Awakening (1980), Hains Point in Washington, D.C. Double Check (1982), Allow Me (Portland, Oregon) (1984), and Forever Marilyn (June 2011), a 26-foot (7.9 m), 17-ton representation of Marilyn Monroe standing over a gusty subway grate in her appearance in The Seven Year Itch, just to name a few.
Johnson was truly an amazing artist and master of painted life-size bronze statues, which actually are castings of living people, though his show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Beyond the Frame: Impressionism Revisited," which presented his statues imitating famous Impressionist paintings, was a success with audiences, but was panned by professional art critics of national stature and drew strong criticism from curators at other museums about a prominent museum of fine art presenting an exhibit of his kitschy work.
Johnson was excluded from his father's will, which left the bulk of his fortune to Barbara Piasecka Johnson, his father's wife and former chambermaid.
He and his siblings sued on grounds that their father wasn't mentally competent at the time he signed the will.
It was settled out of court, and the children were granted about 12% of the fortune.
That's the story of John Seward Johnson Jr.
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Paul Freidlund
congratulations on the sale f
Gary Keesler replied:
AWESOME!!! Thank you Paul, your views & comments are highly valued and thanks for sharing... :-)
E Faithe Lester
Beautifully captured; outstanding composition; appreciate the descriptive details. Congrats for the sell!
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