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Head of a Black Woman, c. 1935

Content Provider	Art Institute of Chicago
Artist	Sargent Claude Johnson
Spatial Coverage	United States
Temporal Coverage	1935
Description	In Head of a Black Woman, Sargent Claude Johnson combined abstract elements drawn from African sculpture and masks—such as the regularly scored marks that describe hair—with a naturalistic portrayal of the woman's physiognomy. In the 1920s and 1930s, writer and philosopher Alain Locke urged artists to seek aesthetic inspiration from African art, and Johnson frequently followed this advice. Here, by subtly stylizing the woman's appearance, Johnson made this delicate terracotta sculpture highly individual yet also timeless and universal. [Terracotta sculpture of a woman of African descent's face: her hair is flattened against her skull, extending down to the figure's neck, and its texture is delineated with small incisions. Her face possesses a prominent forehead, broad nose, and full lips. The sculpture is both highly individual yet also timeless and universal.]
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.
Use Rights URL	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Subject Keyword	Terracotta Sculpture Modernism Modern And Contemporary Art Artworks Arts of the Americas
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Visual Artwork
Object Type	Sculpture

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