Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman

Resource Information

The work Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman

Title remainder

Renaissance woman

Statement of responsibility

Jeffreen M. Hayes ; with contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick and Bridget R. Cooks ; and an introduction by Howard Dodson

Creator

• Hayes, Jeffreen M

Contributor

• Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
• Buick, Kirsten Pai
• Dixon Gallery and Gardens
• New-York Historical Society, Library
• Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
• Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-
• Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962

Artist

• Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962

Author

• Hayes, Jeffreen M

Contributor

• Buick, Kirsten Pai
• Cooks, Bridget R., 1972-

Host institution

• Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
• Dixon Gallery and Gardens
• Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University)
• New-York Historical Society, Library

Subject

• Busts -- United States -- Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Figure sculpture, American -- Exhibitions
• Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962
• Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962 -- Exhibitions
• United States
• Women sculptors
• Women sculptors -- United States -- Exhibitions
• African American sculptors
• African American sculpture
• African American sculptors -- Exhibitions
• African American women artists -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

This is a timely, visual, exploration of the fascinating life and lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), who overcame poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination to become one of America's most influential twentieth-century artists. Her story is one of community-building, activism, and art education. Born just outside Jacksonville, Florida, Savage left the South to pursue new opportunities and opened a studio in Harlem, New York City, offering free art classes. She co-founded the Harlem Artists' Guild in 1935 and became the first director of the federally-supported Harlem Community Art Center. Through her leadership there, Savage played an instrumental role in the development of many artists: William Artis, Gwendolyn Knight, Gwendolyn Bennett, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, among many others. This ground-breaking volume features fifty works by Savage, and those she mentored or influenced, as well as correspondence and period photographs

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

709.04

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

NB237.S286

LC item number

A4 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs