In both her down-to-earth landscapes and her more fantastical imaginings, Jane Johnson belongs to a very American tradition exemplified by painters like Dove and Charles Burchfield, who might be said to take their credo from Walt Whitman, that most American of 19th-century poets. “You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from your self,” Whitman wrote in Song of Myself. The result for the poet and for the painters mentioned here is a kind of ecstasy that comes from seeing the familiar in wholly original ways.

–Ann Landy, contributing editor, ARTnews

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