About This Artwork

Sargent Claude Johnson
American, 1888-1967

Head of a Negro Woman, c. 1935

Terracotta
20.6 x 10.5 x 13.3 cm (8 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.) (sculpture)
7.9 x 10.8 x 10.2 cm (3 1/8 x 4 1/4 x 4 in.) (base)
Signed: SARGENT JOHNSON (on underside of hair on proper left)
Laura T. Magnuson Endowment, 2000.86

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Evangeline J. Montgomery, “Sargent Johnson,” International Review of African American Art 6, 2 (1984), pp. 4–17.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 104.

Ownership History

Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, by 2000; sold to the Art Institute, 2000.