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By Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967), Singing Saints, 1967, Tempera and enamel on steel, 31 1/2 x 25 inches. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has an exhibit of his works up thru May 20, 2024. More info in ALT. #arthistory #blackart #blackartists #Art .

A semi-abstracted work of a black woman playing a stringed instrument, another woman behind her, arm upraised. From the Huntington: “Sargent Claude Johnson was born in Boston in 1888 to Eliza Jackson, a woman of African and Cherokee heritage, and Anderson Johnson, a Swedish American. A multiracial artist who identified as Black… Johnson drew from a range of international influences, including traditional and contemporary arts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He traveled to Japan and Mexico, where he met with Mexican modernist artists and learned traditional pottery techniques from Indigenous artists. Johnson was among the earliest of a generation of African American artists to travel to Mexico.”

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