Gibson's Breaker, Rushdale, Pennsylvania
Thomas H. Johnson
ca. 1865
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
30.3 x 38.7 cm (11 15/16 x 15 1/4 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2000
Accession Number
2000.124
Tags
FactoriesArchitectureIndustry
About the Artist
Thomas H. Johnson · 1860–1870
Thomas H. Johnson was an American artist active in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Working during a period of considerable vitality in American art — when landscape painting, genre scenes, and printmaking were all flourishing — Johnson contributed to a visual culture that was expanding rapidly alongside the nation itself. The specifics of Johnson's training are not fully documented, th...