Johnson, Elaine L.

Museum curator and art historian; New York City; probably b. 1928; d. 1980. Johnson was an associate curator of paintings and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Author of CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS AS PRINTMAKERS, 1966.

Art historian, critic, and former curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Elaine L. Johnson joined The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Circulating Exhibitions in 1960. She became an Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints in 1961 and served as an Associate Curator in the same department from 1963 to ca. 1971.

She directed or co-directed twenty exhibitions of graphic art for the Museum, devoted to many styles and periods, including: "Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth College" (MoMA Exh, #698, Nov. 22, 1961-Jan.21, 1962); "Prints by German Expressionists" (C/E II.2/128(13), 1961-1963); "Modern American Drawings" (ICE-F-44-60, 1961-1962); "The Responsive Eye: Prints" ("op" art) (MoMA Exh, #757, Feb. 25-Apr. 25, 1965; C/E II.3.4 (48), 1966-1969); and "Dada, surrealism, and Today" (C/E II.2/141(7), 1967-1969.)