
Art Institute of Chicago
Pair of Teacups
Sargent Claude Johnson · 1941
Provenance
Ownership history
- Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art, San Francisco, after c. 1990 [LeFalle-Collins 1998, 82]; sold, Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, June 30, 2019, lot 169, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, <em>Sargent Johnson: African–American Modernist</em>, Mar. 13–July 7, 1998, cat. 28.
Literature
Published references
- Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, ed., <em>Sargent Johnson: African–American Modernist</em>, exh. cat. (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998), 82, cat. 28.
- Thom Pegg, <em>The Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art</em> (Tyler Fine Art, 2019), 172, cat. 67 (ill.).
- Thom Pegg, <em>Sargent Johnson (1888–1967): Works in the Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art</em> (Tyler Fine Art, 2019), 28–29 (ill.).
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand

Head of a Black Woman
Art Institute of Chicago

Water Lilies
Art Institute of Chicago

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
Art Institute of Chicago

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)
Art Institute of Chicago

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
Art Institute of Chicago

Cliff Walk at Pourville
Art Institute of Chicago

St. Jerome Praying
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant