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Collection Data
- Description
- Augusta Savage (1892-1962) was a Harlem Renaissance sculptor and the first director of the Harlem Community Art Center. Arriving in New York in 1921, Savage graduated from Cooper Union and received fellowships to study in France. Her works include The Harp which was commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair. The collection includes press clippings about her sculpting career, manuscripts from her retirement period, and some posthumous correspondence.
- Names
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962 (Creator)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1926 - 1987
- Library locations
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Shelf locator: Sc MG 731
- Topics
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962
- Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- African American women artists
- African Americans in art
- Women sculptors
- Genres
- Scrapbooks
- Ephemera
- Writing
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Augusta Savage (1892-1962) was a Harlem Renaissance sculptor and the first director of the Harlem Community Art Center. Arriving in New York in 1921, Savage graduated from Cooper Union and received fellowships to study in France. Her works include The Harp, which was commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair.
- Content: The collection includes press clippings about her sculpting career, manuscripts from her retirement period, and some posthumous correspondence. The press clippings, which are about Savage, are contained in a scrapbook.
- Acquisition: Lorriane Lucas Gift Avril, 2004
- Physical Description
- Extent: 2 boxes 0.46 linear feet
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Identifiers
- Other local Identifier: Sc MG 731
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16345340
- MSS Unit ID: 21216
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 151cd4b0-d597-013b-d0f4-0242ac110004
