To all who are celebrating today: Merry Christmas! A particularly warm greeting to those who are spending their 2020 holiday season away from their loved ones. Here’s to good health and goodwill in 2021.

To help us ring in the day is the brilliant artwork of William H. Johnson, born 1901 in Florence, South Carolina. Johnson’s work and tumultuous life took him through Paris, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Harlem, before he passed in 1970.

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Three Friends. 1944-45

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Folk Family. 1944

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Little Sweet. 1944

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Little Girl in Orange. 1944

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Church on Lenox Avenue. 1939-40

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Header: Harlem Cityscape with Church. ~1939-40