Jimmy Johnson:
CLASS OF 1953
Hot Springs High SchoolClass of 1953
Hot springs, AR
Jimmy's Story
A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Jim Johnson won his first national art award in the fifth grade at Jones School. Now he is a retired Art Director living in Little Rock. He worked at Hallmark Cards in the late 50s as one of the first writers and designers of the popular, humorous Contemporary Cards.
He co-founded Cranford/Johnson Advertising in 1961 and served as Senior Vice President Creative until his retirement in 1998. He has won many national graphic design awards and was recently named a Distinguished Alumnus at the University of Arkansas Fulbright College Department of Art.
He started painting and working in acrylics and pastels as a student at the Arkansas Arts Center Museum School. He has developed a b...Expand for more
uying market and is now represented by the Red Door Gallery in North Little Rock, The Heights Gallery in Little Rock.
His art ranges from imaginative landscapes to whimsical figurative subjects.
His work may be seen at yessy.com/jimjohnson/gallery.aspx
His work is in many private collections in Little Rock, Hot Springs Arkansas, Washington DC, Sao Paulo Brazil, Memphis, Boulder, Colorado and Westport, Connecticut. He is also included in The Arkansas Center on Aging Collection and The Clinton Library Thea Collection.
In 1987, he was a member of the Arkansas Mt Everest Expedition in Tibet.
Jim still plays guitar in a popular Rock band , "The Rockets." Voted best band in Arkansas thirteen years in a row.
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