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4 unusual facts about John Christen Johansen


Dulah Marie Evans

While a student at The Art Institute, Dulah spent her summers in Saugatuck, Michigan, studying under John Christen Johansen and other prominent artists.

John Christen Johansen

He maintained friendships with other artists including James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent.

At the conclusion of World War I, Johansen was commissioned by the U.S. government to document the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which today hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

While a member of the faculty of the Art Institute he met, and later wed, recognized portraitist M. Jean McLane (1878–1964).



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