Pair of Teacups
1941 · Earthenware and glaze
Each; irregular: 7 × 10 × 6.9 cm (2 13/16 × 3 15/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sargent Claude Johnson
1888
PaintingRenaissance
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
7
Assets Indexed
6
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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New Humans: Memories of the Future
New Museum
2026
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Why this artist matters now
Sargent Claude Johnson worked across painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking with a modernist abstraction that engaged figuration. A San Francisco-based artist, he was among the first African-American painters to achieve national prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, working in oil, watercolor, lithography, terra cotta, wood, and ceramic tile.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New Museum
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New Museum
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San Francisco Art Institute
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