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JOHNSON, Diane Chalmers
JOHNSON, Diane Chalmers. (Dubuque, IA- ). Johnson received her B.A. at Radcliffe College, Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. (1)
In September 1979 as an art history professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, Johnson wrote American Art Nouveau, a three hundred page illustrated book resulting from five years of research. Tracing the Art Nouveau (New Art) movement, which began in Europe over one hundred years ago, the book was an extension of Johnson's doctoral dissertation written on Will Bradley, a pioneer in the American phase of the Art Nouveau movement.
In 1994 she wrote "Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens": Albert Pinkham Ryder's Response to Richard Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" in American Art, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2)
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Source:
1. "Diane Chalmers Johnson," College of Charleston, Online: http://arthistory.cofc.edu/about-the-department/faculty-and-staff/johnson.php
2. The University of Chicago Press Journals, Online: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3109160?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents