Standard Petroleum Refinery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Thomas H. Johnson
c. 1865
Medium
stereoscopic albumen prints
Dimensions
image/sheet (each): 7.8 × 8 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.) mount: 8.2 × 17.1 cm (3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2017.93.15
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...