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Richard S. Johnson is a contemporary American painter based in Chicago, Illinois. .

Biography
Johnson was born in Chicago to a family of artists. While still in primary school, Johnson was accepted as a scholar to the Art Institute of Chicago. A graduate of the American Academy of Art, he embarked on a career as an illustrator.

Influences
Johnson is heavily influenced by Charles Dana Gibson, N.C. Wyeth, and John Singer Sargent, whose books he pored on as a child.

Style
Johnson's style has been regarded as having the technical excellence of pre-Raphael Romanticism mixed with contemporary expressionism and abstraction.