Augusta Savage took over a year to create a 16-foot sculpture depicting a choir of 12 Black children singing, arranged like strings on a harp held up by the hand of God.

Augusta Savage was the first person in the U.S. to open a gallery dedicated to African American ... the seventh of 14 children, Savage resisted her parents' early disapproval of her art making ...

Augusta Savage was a celebrated sculptor who opened a gallery to spotlight the work of Black artists. ... The seventh of 14 children in a household on the brink of poverty, ...

Savage was born Augusta Christine Fells in Green Cove Springs in 1892, the seventh of 14 children in the family. She moved to New York in the 1920s and, ...

Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells in Green Cove Springs, Fla., in 1892, was the seventh of 14 children. She started making animal sculptures from clay as a child, but her father strongly ...

This sculpture, “Gamin,” was created by Augusta Savage (1892–1962) early in her career. It was based on her nephew, Ellis Ford. The French word gamin means “street urchin,” and the figure’s wrinkled ...

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 ...

Sculptor Augusta Savage once said: "I was a Leap Year baby, ... Gamin is a child of the streets, an urchin in a soft cap, a wrinkled shirt and dignity, pride in his eyes.

Born on Feb. 29, 1892, Savage once said, "I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since." Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students | WWNO ...

Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, ... She was born into a poor family, the seventh of 14 children. Her father, ...

She Was the Seventh of 14 Children and Her Father Didn’t Want Her Doing Art. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Augusta Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells, was the seventh of 14 ...