Guy Johnson Signed Poster Dancing at Ollie Trout's Trailer Park Florida 1940s.
Guy Johnson
Artist, realist, expressionist, satirist, painter, printmaker
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Guy Johnson was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1927.
Guy Johnson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 150 USD to 10,787 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,787 USD for California Moon, sold at Sotheby's London in 2012.
The artist died in 2019.
Guy Johnson, 1927
Artist biography
Guy Johnson was a visual artist. Guy Johnson was born in 1927. Also born in 1927 and of this same generation are Valentīns Ozoliņš, Paul Armand Gette, Xénia Columby-Sinayová, Michael Grossert, and Gaetana Aulenti.
Further Biographical Context for Guy Johnson
Born in 1927, Guy Johnson's creative work was primarily inspired by the 1950s. The 1950s can be said to have been dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised expressive brushstrokes and explored ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal techniques of painting, and ideas of action painting were conflated with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strictures nature of the Soviet bloc. Important artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock (who innovated his famed drip, splatter and pour painting techniques), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, but necessary reassessment of this period has underlined the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.
Ollie Trouts Tourist Park , 107th St. and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla.
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Ollie Trout's Tourist Park, Miami, Florida, ca. 1937
Caption: "Ollie Trout's Tourist Park, 107th St. and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla." One of the trailers on the right-hand side is labeled "Murphy."
Palm trees dominate the landscape at Ollie Trout's Tourist Park (or Travel Park), Miami, Florida, circa 1937, in this view from a real photo postcard. Visible among the trees are Adirondack chairs, tables with umbrellas, a fountain, automobiles, and travel trailers.
The park was an expensive place to stay in the 1930s and 1940s. As author Phil Noyes explains in his book Trailerama (2012), p. 118, "In post-war America, five dollars a day was a pretty penny, but that's what it would have cost to park your bouncing bungalow at Ollie Trout's Travel Park. Ollie guaranteed palm trees on every site, and there was a bevy of white-jacketed servants delivering cold drinks and warm food to your trailer door."
Here was another unique find from the Bertram Roland Backstrom Collection.
The Estate includes ceramic pottery & sculpture from Karen Karnes, Ann Stannard, Byron Temple, Bill Stewart, Jeffery Oestreich, Anne Shattuck-Bailey, Marie Moore Summers, Robert Winokur, Ron Garfinkle, Charles Walter Clewell, and Natalie Surving.
Over the years Mr. Backstrom became friends with Karen Karnes and her partner Ann Stannard. Bert purchased over fifty pieces of pottery from the incredible couple.
Recent discoveries of prints, paintings and artifacts from Mr. Backstrom’s Estate keep turning up from the family warehouse. Many unseen works date back to before 1987 when the last crate was stored away.
Please keep checking in with this seller Unkyan Finds Estate Sales for more beautiful Art and Collectables.
Bertram Backstrom Obituary
Bertram Roland Backstrom of Pelham New York died Saturday, March 2 1985 in Laurens Hospital Bronxville NY after a long illness he was 40 years old the son of Elizabeth Bruner Backstrom in the late Emil Backstrom I.
Bert was a lifelong Pelham resident and a graduate of Pelham Memorial high school. He took his bachelor of arts degree at the New York State University College at Buffalo, later he pursued further studies at the Brooklyn Museum, the new school, and the Parsons School of Design while at Buffalo. He won a summer scholarship at Haystack Mountain school of craft on Deer Island, Maine, where he studied under noted ceramist Karen Karnes. He was recognized as showing outstanding abilities in both ceramics and basketry, and his work was sold at a number of places in Manhattan, a man of varied interest.
He was an avid and expert gardener, and a knowledgeable collector of antiques in Pelham. Mr. Backstrom had worked with ceramist Susan Nathanson in her fifth Avenue studio for a brief period. He did part-time work at the Pelham art center one year, decorated its Easter window with a large basket of his own making filled with the personal choice of spring flowers for a time he was employed by Pelham Manor florist for several years before his final illness.
Mr. Backstrom is survived by his mother also of Pelham, his brother Emil FC Backstrom the second of Dix Hills New York, Mrs. Charles Norris of Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania and grandniece grace joy, NARA, a nephew Emil FC Backstrom III, of Dix Hills, and two uncles, Dr. Bertram F Bruner of Seattle, Washington and Kenneth W Backstrom of Minneapolis Minnesota.
A memorial service will be held at 4 o’clock Saturday, March 9 at the parish of Christ the redeemer church, 1415 Pelhamdale Ave. the Reverend David Hogue officiating memorial contributions to the Pelham art center would be appreciated by the family.