Divine Love (Mother and Child)

Inscription: Inscribed (lower left below plate, in graphite): Mother w Child; signed and dated (lower right below plate, in graphite): Sargent Johnson / 1930

[Kenkeleba House, New York, until 1992; sold on April 1, 1992 to Williams]; Reba and Dave Williams, New York (1992–99; their gift to MMA)

Hamilton, N. Y. Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. "Life Impressions: 20th-Century African American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 10–November 4, 2001, no. 20 (as "Divine Love").

Evangeline J. Montgomery in Sargent Johnson: Retrospective. Exh. cat., Oakland Museum, Art Division Special Gallery. [Oakland], 1971, ill. p. 14 (not this edition, collection of Bob Hanson, Berkeley), calls it "Divine Love" and dates it 1934.

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Shifra M. Goldman. In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1996, p. 134, no. 52, ill. (color) (not this edition, Collection of Melvin Holmes, San Francisco), call it "Divine Love (Amor divino)" and date it 1934.

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Judith Wilson. Sargent Johnson: African American Modernist. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 1998, p. 81, no. 13, colorpl. 7 (not this edition), call it "Divine Love" and date it 1935.

Mary Ann Calo in Life Impressions: 20th-Century African American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Dewey F. Mosby. Exh. cat., Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. Hamilton, N. Y., 2001, p. 12.

Dewey F. Mosby and Jane Seney in Life Impressions: 20th-Century African American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Dewey F. Mosby. Exh. cat., Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. Hamilton, N. Y., 2001, pp. 20, 46, 64–65, no. 20, fig. 3.