Watercolor Landscape Painting by H. Crown Johnson

This is an original watercolor and gouache landscape painting on paper by the artist H. Crown Johnson. The work depicts a rustic rural scene featuring a weathered barn, a silo, and various outbuildings silhouetted against a large, leafless tree. The palette is dominated by muted earth tones, including umber, sienna, and ochre, with a hazy, overcast gray sky that suggests a late autumn or early spring atmosphere. The execution shows proficient use of wet-on-wet techniques for the sky and more detailed, dry-brush work for the wooden textures of the structures and the skeletal branches of the tree. The foreground is defined by a loosely rendered fence line that leads the eye into the center of the composition. The piece is housed in a simple wooden frame under glass with a white mat border. In terms of condition, there is visible light glare on the glass, making it difficult to assess fine foxing or yellowing of the paper, though the colors appear stable. There is a discernible signature in the lower left-hand corner. The style is mid-20th-century American regionalism, focusing on pastoral decay and atmospheric perspective. The quality of the brushwork and the control of light and shadow indicate a trained hand, likely dating from the mid-to-late 20th century.