Ned Johnson (elected October 1978) died March 23, 2022. Johnson was an innovator in the investment business over a career that spanned six decades; his lengthy history as a collector of American furniture and decorative arts as well as Asian art paralleled that arc. He transformed Fidelity Investments, a family-run firm, into one of the United States’ largest investment companies and one of its most influential. Johnson kept his philanthropic leadership across New England and beyond quiet, preferring to make gifts anonymously. The Johnson family’s generosity to AAS has included support for the Center for Historic American Visual Culture; technology grants that enabled the Society to move its systems forward at the dawn of the twenty-first century; and key gifts to past capital campaigns.
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