
Art Institute of Chicago
Head of a Black Woman
Sargent Claude Johnson · c. 1935
Provenance
Ownership history
- Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, by 2000; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10157/project-a-black-planet-the-art-and-culture-of-panafrica"><em>Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica</em></a>, Dec. 15, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025, not in cat.; Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Nov. 6, 2025–Apr. 6, 2026; London, Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences, June 11–Sept. 6, 2026 (Chicago only).
Literature
Published references
- Evangeline J. Montgomery, “Sargent Johnson,” <em>International Review of African American Art</em> 6, 2 (1984): 11 (ill.), as <em>Negro Woman</em>.
- Susan and Al Bagdade, "Treadway/Toomey Holds Twentieth Century Sale," <em>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</em> (June 30, 2000): 44 (ill.), 46 (ill.), as <em>Head of a Negro Woman</em>.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 104, as <em>Head of a Negro Woman</em>.
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