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American
(1888–1967)
Primitive Head
1945
Oaxacan clay, wood
7.5 x 4.5 x 6 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2020.29
In 1945 and 1949, Johnson received funding from the Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship to travel to Mexico. While in Mexico in 1945, he met the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and visited the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, where he saw the frescos of Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco. He also spent time at the National Museum of Anthropology, where he studied sculpture and pottery that had been excavated from various pre-Columbian temples and cities. He subsequently visited Oaxaca and became interested in a gray clay that turned black when fired, traditionally used in regional ceramics. In a letter to friends regarding the clay, he wrote, “I also made a few small figures myself hope they turn out.”
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