Reverend William Lupton Johnson

Reverend William Lupton Johnson

John Wood Dodge

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sitter (1800-1870) served as rector of Grace Church in New York City from 1830 until his death.


The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.