Seargant Claude Johnson

"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." — Sargent Johnson quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Sargent Johnson: Retrospective (Oakland: The Oakland Museum Art … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African American Pottery and Ceramics