[7][8] [9] In addition to Field & Stream, he contributed to Cosmopolitan[10][11] and Harpers Weekly magazines,[12] and illustrated the Western novels of Zane Grey.
[14] In 1912 he joined cowboy artist Charles Russell on a sketching expedition to the Blackfoot Reservation east of Glacier National Park in Montana.
[15] He lived and worked on the Lazy 7 Ranch in Hayden, Colorado for a while, where he gained the title "Cow-Puncher Artist.
"[19] Attending a social event with his wife, Johnson happened to greet a socialite with a kiss on the cheek.
[20][21] In 1923, Johnson was awarded the Samuel T. Shaw Purchase Prize at an exhibit at the Salmagundi Club of which he was a member.
[23] In 1979, the Frank Tenney Johnson Memorial Invitational Art Show was held at the Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, California.