As a freelance photographer in the late 1890s, Johnston sought out subjects that could illuminate the rapid social advances of the Progressive Era.
Revisiting america
Annabel Daou's The Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
“Reencountering my work in the Colby Museum now, I see it as indicating the fine line between what we perceive as fixed or stable and what may at any moment disintegrate, fade away, or simply become an illegible replica of what it once stood for.”
New Acquisition
Asher Durand’s Catskill Mountains Near Shandaken
“For Durand, though, painting in nature wasn’t just a mode of practice; it was a way of living and working in communion with the very subject matter he put on canvas.”