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.
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