Sargent Claude Johnson (1888–1967) was a Bay Area sculptor of international renown and a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. He also experimented with lithography, gaining access to Works Progress Administration (WPA) printmaking facilities through his role as unit supervisor of the WPA sculpture division. Though his sculptures and prints are markedly different, the process of creating a lithograph by drawing on the surface of limestone has affinities with that of carving and sculpting.
Of his subjects, Johnson said:"It is the pure American Negro I am concerned with, aiming to show the natural beauty and dignity in that characteristic lip and that characteristic hair, bearing and manner; and I wish to show that beauty not so much to the white man as to the Negro himself."
About This Print
This print featuresLenox Avenue, created in 1938. The work evinces Johnson's engagement with abstraction while retaining referential figuration—a balance that defines much of his printmaking.
Archival print on museum-quality paper
Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
Paper weight: 189 g/m²
Opacity: 94%
ISO brightness: 104%
Paper is sourced from Japan
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