<I>Dancer</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1938-1940
name: label: Created by
content: Sargent Claude Johnson, American, 1888 - 1967
notes: label: Caption
content: Sargent Claude Johnson’s multifaceted work reflected the aesthetic sensibilities of the New Negro movement and the Mexican mural movement, as well as early American abstraction. Although Johnson is most often celebrated for his works reflecting African and African American figurative subject matter, by the late 1930s he became a participant in America’s burgeoning abstract expressionist style.
label: Caption
content: The sleek form and gently undulating movement of Dancer is sculpted in the biomorphic or organic style popular in Europe and the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. It is characterized by rounded abstract forms that are based on shapes found in the natural world.
label: Description
content: An abstract varnished terracotta sculpture, made of deep red-brown terracotta clay with occasional black and brown flecks from inclusions within the clay. Rising from a curvilinear dark wood base, the sculpture incorporates a rounded, twisting form that curves in an 'S' shape. The 'S' shape intersects with a rounded trianguloid shape that together flow into a rounded form with a swooping wing.
place: label: Place made
content: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Dance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.164
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown – Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: varnished terracotta
label: Dimensions
content: 10 x 6 x 7 in. (25.4 x 15.2 x 17.8 cm)