Johnson, Sargent
Johnson, Sargent,
1888–1967, American sculptor, b. Boston. He moved to N California at age 18 and studied stulpture there. A member of California's New Negro Movement, Johnson was influenced by West African and Egyptian art, and his work often has an art decoart decoor art moderne
, term that designates a style of design that originated in French luxury goods shortly before World War I and became ubiquitously and internationally popular during the 1920s and 30s.
..... Click the link for more information. look. During the Great Depression, Johnson did many works for the Federal Art Project, often large friezes filled with the simplified, rounded forms of people and animals. His Forever Free (1935) is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art, and one of his large redwood panels is owned by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. Johnson's later work tended to be more stylized and abstract.