Biographical History

Marian Ashby Johnson is a former music teacher, art history professor, and history consultant from Utah.

Marian Ashby Johnson grew up in Provo, Utah, graduating from Provo High School. She studied music at Brigham Young University and at the New York City Mannes School of Music. In New York, she taught at the Lenox School for Girls, and met and married G. Wesley Johnson. Marian received an M.A. and PhD in art history, specializing in European and African art, at Stanford University. She worked for Santa Barbara City College, then later as a history and art history professor for BYU. She studied and collected art from Africa, particularly Senegal. Marian and her husband, G. Wesley Johnson, had four children. They co-authored “Centennial Utah; The Beehive State on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century,” published in 1995. Marion and Wesley administered the Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project after Wesley’s retirement in 1997 until 2007.

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nuc89-22154: Her Black gold, 1980(hdg. on MnU rept.: Johnson, Marian Ashby; usage: Marian Ashby Johnson) Minerva's calling, website viewed 2 April 2013(Marian Ashby Johnson; Ph.D., art history and history, Stanford University; assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University) Facebook, via www, November 10, 2023 (Marian Ashby Johnson grew up in Provo, Utah, graduating from Provo High School. She studied music at Brigham Young University and at the New York City Mannes School of Music. In New York, she taught at the Lenox School for Girls, and met and married G. Wesley Johnson. Marian received an M.A. and PhD in art history, specializing in European and African art, at Stanford University. She worked for Santa Barbara City College, then later as a history and art history professor for BYU. She studied and collected art from Africa, particularly Senegal. Marian and her husband, G. Wesley Johnson, had four children.) https://www.facebook.com/marianajohnson1/about_details Benchmark books, via www, November 10, 2023 (Co-authored Centennial Utah; The Beehive State on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century) https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/11547/g-wesley-johnson-marian-ashby-johnson/centennial-utah-the-beehive-state-on-the-eve-of-the-twenty-first-century National Council on Public History, via www, September 12, 2023 (Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project (MOLHP); Wesley retired from teaching in 1997, but, with his wife Marian, continued to administer the MOLHP until it was finished in 2007)