Augusta Savage, Renaissance woman
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, activis...
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Jacksonville, Florida
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
2018
London D Giles Limited |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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.0Born 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.0This ground-breaking volume features fifty works by Savage, and those she mentored or influenced, as well as correspondence and period photographs. Exhibition: Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, USA (12.10.2018-07.04.2019) |
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Beschreibung: | Accompanies the exhibition ... 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 |
Beschreibung: | 156 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits |
ISBN: | 9781911282228 978-1-911282-22-8 0915135183 0-915135-18-3 |