Sargent Claude Johnson Drop-In Talks
On view in the “Sargent Claude Johnson” exhibition are Head of a Boy (ca. 1928) and the monumental carved redwood Organ Screen (1933–34), which was created for the auditorium of the California School for the Blind in Berkeley, California. The screen—which had been out of public view from 1980 to 2011, when The Huntington acquired it—will be reunited with the other parts of Johnson’s California School for the Blind commission for the first time in over four decades.
Talks at 11 a.m. and noon, subject to docent availability.
Sargent Claude Johnson, Organ Screen, 1933–34, gilded and painted redwood, 105 × 264 × 2 in. Photo: © 2014 Fredrik Nilsen. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Sargent Claude Johnson, Head of a Boy, ca. 1928, glazed terracotta, 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 6 in. | © Estate of Sargent Claude Johnson. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
