Alfred Cheney Johnston died in 1971, three years after the death of his wife. He died alone survived only by his cat and the remains of thousands of portraits from a faded era which had made him famous. The world of the 1970's with the Viet Nam War, rock music and fine art photography had a lock on the attention of the NYC art world and Cheney's passing went largely unnoticed..........The End

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