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Title
"Forever Free," sculpture by Sargent Johnson, San Francisco, 1933
Alternative Title
Sculpture by Sargent Johnson
Contributor
Johnson, Sargent, 1888-1967
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Sargent Claude Johnson was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation. He was known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles. He was a painter, potter, ceramicist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. He worked with a variety of media, including ceramics, clay, oil, stone, terra-cotta, watercolor, and wood. [Wikipedia]
Forever Free, a sculpture by Sargent Johnson. Three feet tall, carved and painted wood. It is a depiction of a stylized African American woman sheltering two naked babies whose outlines have been incised and painted onto her columnar body. In the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b24_f01_001.tif
ark:/21198/z1j97qmc
Subject
African American sculpture
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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