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WILLIAM H. JOHNSON (1901 -1970)
Holcha Krake
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Woodcut printed in brown on handmade buff paper, circa 1930-35. 356x305 mm; 14x12 inches,
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Provenance: the estate of Holcha Krake; by descent to her sister ErnaVoll; her daughter KarenVoll;
her granddaughter JohannaVoll.
We have located only one other impression - a signed impression, handcolored with watercolor, in
the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a gift from the Harmon Foundation.
This woodcut is a striking, expressionist portrait of the artist’s wife. Johnson married Danish artist
Holcha Krake in 1930, whom he had first met in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1928-29.The couple settled
in Ketterminde, Denmark, and spent the 1930s living and traveling in Denmark,Tunisia and Norway.
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