Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman

Entry/Object ID

Library.841

Description

156 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman by Jeffreen M. Hayes. This is a 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. Contents: Lenders to the Exhibition -- Foreword / Holly Keris -- Curator's Acknowledgments / Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. -- Introduction / Howard Dodson, Ph.D. -- Labor, Love, Legacy: Augusta Savage's Art / Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. -- Augusta Savage: A Gallery of Their Own / Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D. -- Monu*ment*ality: Edmonia Lewis, Meta Fuller, Augusta Savage and the Re-Envisioning of Public Space / Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D. -- Plates -- Selected Letters and Archival Photographs -- Exhibition Checklist -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits. Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-154) and index.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Savage, Augusta, -- 1892-1962 -- Exhibitions., Women sculptors -- United States -- Exhibitions., African American sculptors -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions., Sculptors -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Publication Details

Author

Hayes, Jeffreen M., Cummer Museum of Art and Garden

Publisher

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens ; London : in association with D Giles Ltd.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Jacksonville

Call No.

NB 237.S286 H39 2018

ISBN

9781911282228