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Sargent Claude Johnson
Sargent Claude Johnson (October 7, 1888 – October 10, 1967) was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation.〔(SF MOMA Exhibition )〕 He was known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles. He was a painter, potter, ceramist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. He worked with a variety of media, including ceramic, clay, oil, stone, terra-cotta, watercolor, and wood.〔(Ask Art )〕 He was in the Communist Party for most of his life.〔
==Early life==
Sargent Johnson was the third of 10 children, born to a father of Swedish descent and mother of African-American and Cherokee ancestry. In 1902, when his mother died, the boys of the family were sent to an orphanage in Worcester, Massachusetts and the girls to a Catholic school for African-American and Native American girls in Pennsylvania. At a young age, Sargent and his siblings went to live with their uncle, Sherman Jackson Williams, and his wife, May Howard Jackson. May was a famous black sculptor specializing in Negro themes and undoubtedly she influenced Sargent Johnson at an early age. Apparently some of his siblings had troubles with identifying themselves as African-American and chose to live as either Native Americans or Caucasians, though Sargent lived his life as an African American without a doubt. Johnson’s transition from practicing artist to professional is largely undocumented, though some say he left from Boston to Chicago to live with some relatives. In 1915 Sargent Johnson moved to the San Francisco Bay area. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which had a stimulating influence on California art, took place shortly after his move. The same year, Sargent Johnson married Pearl Lawson and began studying drawing and painting at the A. W. Best School of Art. He attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) from 1919 to 1923, where his teachers included the sculptors Beniamino Bufano and Ralph Stackpole. Consuelo Kanaga, a photographer of that time, knew him well and said of Johnson, “He was beautiful in his spirit, the way he talked, the way he thought, the way he worked, the way he felt. I don’t mean he didn’t have problems. He did – terrible problems – but he was still beautiful. It was his spirit, the way he looked at everything."〔
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