Sculptor Augusta Savage once said: “I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since.” Born on Feb. 29, 1892, Savage leapt from the Jim Crow South to public attention in the Harlem Renaissance, but is little known today. Now, her work is the focus of an […]
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Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance | Artsy
When I was in elementary school in the early 1990s, I would occasionally beg my mother for money to buy a book from the Scholastic Books circular. One year, I asked for a title called Great Women In the Struggle, the second volume in the “Book of Black Heroes” series. Its purple cover featured black-and-white […]
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The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition – Timeline
Unfortunately, little of her work survives.
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