Jill Johnson, photographer, Fort Worth
Moderated by Robert McAn, head of donor relations, membership, and special events
The Texas landscape and its inhabitants—human and animal—reverberate in the joyful photography of Fort Worth-based Jill Johnson, who was raised in Houston and spent summers on family farms in Bushland and Muleshoe. Her vivid and sharply detailed photographs, shot with a Hasselblad camera, reflect childhood experiences tending cattle and working on the land she cherishes. With a keen eye for color and composition, she captures an indelible and intimate vision of small-town Texas in portraits, travel photographs, and other genres.
What does the art of the past mean to the artist of the present? In this ongoing program, moderated by Kimbell staff, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.
