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R. S. Johnson Fine Art, established in Chicago on Michigan Avenue in 1955 by S.E. Johnson (1904-1967), has been directed since 1968 by Ursula and R. Stanley Johnson. 

R. S. Johnson has published over one hundred scholarly catalogues, ranging from Old Master prints and drawings to the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and covering artists from Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi and Goya to Cassatt, Villon, Czobel, Gromaire, Barnabè, Matisse, Léger and Picasso. He also has lectured in museums across America.  His recent writings include essays on “Andrea Mantegna” and “Reflections on Collecting”, both published by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in Nouvelles de l’Estampe.  His book Cubism & La Section d’Or:Reflections on the Development of the Cubist Epoch 1907-1922, now an essential reference on the subject, was first published in 1991. Goya: Los Caprichos appeared in 1992, Mary Cassatt in 1997, while his study on Italian artist Duilio Barnabè (1914-1961) appeared in 2003.  In 2004, he published Pablo Picasso: Works on Paper, while his most recent book, Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971) was published in April of 2007.

R. S. Johnson Fine Art specializes in museum quality works of art from Dürer and Rembrandt to Degas and Picasso. Fifty-two museums have made acquisitions works from R. S. Johnson.  These include: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.