Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman
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Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens , D. Giles Limited, 2018
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Augusta Savage, Renaissance woman
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"This catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman', on display at Cummer Museum: October 12, 2018-April 7, 2019; New-York Historical Society Museum & Library: May 3-July 28, 2019; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University: August 24-December 8, 2019; Dixon Gallery & Gardens: January 19-March 22, 2020."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-154) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Lenders to the Exhibition
- Foreword
- Curator’s Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Labor, Love, Legacy: Augusta Savage’s Art by Jeffreen M. Hayes
- Augusta Savage: A Gallery of Their Own by Bridget R. Cooks
- Monu*ment*ality: Edmonia Lewis, Meta Fuller, Augusta Savage and the Re-Envisioning of Public Space by Kirsten Pai Buick
- Plates
- Selected Letters and Archival Photographs
- Exhibition Checklist
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Photo Credits
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