In 1937, she oversaw the purchase of a complete set of Francisco Goya's Caprichos print series for the museum's collection.
[2] She published numerous books and monographs about printmaking, focusing on artists like Georges Rouault, Isabel Bishop, and Adja Yunkers.
[1] She was a Ford Foundation grant recipient, which enabled her to write a series of monographs about American artists including John Paul Jones and Milton Avery.
[3][4] Johnson retired from her post at the Brooklyn Museum in 1969 and was named a curator emeritus of the institution in 1973.
She also spent three years as director of the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.