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Frank Tenney Johnson |
| Birth Year : |
1874 |
| Death Year : |
1939 |
| Country : |
US |
Frank Tenney Johnson was a man whom history had passed by: by the time of his maturity the great Wild West was gone. Having grown up in the West,
however, gave a personal resonance to his almost mythological recreations of the legends of cowboys, hustlers, and outlaws. At the age of fourteen
he ran away from his Wisconsin home and apprenticed himself to the panoramic painter F. W. Heine in Milwaukee as well as to the former Texas ranger Richard Lorenz. After working as an illustrator in the midwest and in New York, he met Zane Grey and was commissioned to illustrate his novels. By 1920 he had become one of the leading Western artists, working in Alhambra, California. He died in Los Angeles of spinal meningitis.
"The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism."
