John Seward Johnson II

He designed life-size bronze statues that were castings of living people, depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities.

[6] Johnson also served four years in the United States Navy during the Korean War.

Examples of his statues include: Magic Fountain stands outside The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Johnson's works were selected by the United States Information Agency to represent the freedoms of the United States in a public and private partnership enterprise representation sponsored by General Motors and many other US corporations at the World EXPO celebration in Seville, Spain during 1992.

[34] His 2003 show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Beyond the Frame: Impressionism Revisited, which presented his statues imitating famous Impressionist paintings, was a success with audiences, but was panned nationally by acknowledged art critics such as Blake Gopnik writing for The Washington Post and drew strong criticism[vague] from curators at other museums about a prominent museum of fine art presenting an exhibit of his work.

Johnson created the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, an educational, nonprofit casting and fabrication facility in 1974 as a means of fostering young sculptors' talents, while creating a foundry designed to construct his statues that is so well-equipped and staffed that it is chosen by many renowned sculptors.

She often engaged in extramarital affairs in their home, driving Johnson to attempt suicide.

[4][38][39] In 1965, he acknowledged paternity to Jenia Anne "Cookie" Johnson to speed up the divorce process.

"[5] Johnson died from cancer at his home in Key West, Florida on March 10, 2020, at the age of 89.