Painter Lester Johnson, 91, Non-Abstract Expressionist

“[A] maverick associate of the Abstract Expressionists in New York, [he] found his subject matter in the joys and sorrows of ordinary people on the street. His boxy figures of the 1960s, somberly painted in thick impasto, their features often scratched into the surface, faced the viewer squarely with an air of stoicism or grim defiance.”