October 7, 1888 Sargent Claude Johnson, painter, ceramist, and sculptor, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1915, Johnson moved to the San Francisco Bay area and began studying at the A. W. Best School of Art. From 1919 to 1923 he attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute).
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