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Augusta Savage
- 1. Augusta Savage 1892 –1962 Dr Michael Paraskos
- 2. Augusta Savage 1892 –1962 Born Augusta Fells in Green Cove Springs, Florida She married in 1907 aged 15 and had a child in 1908, soon after becoming a widow Marrying again in 1915 she took the surname of her second husband, Savage
- 3. Augusta Savage 1892 –1962 “From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.” Augusta Savage
- 4. Augusta Savage 1892 –1962 Her father strongly disapproved of her pursuing art: “My father licked me four or five times a week,” Savage once recalled, “and almost whipped all the art out of me.” Augusta Savage
- 5. Augusta Savage 1892 –1962 Her father strongly disapproved of her pursuing art: “My father licked me four or five times a week,” Savage once recalled, “and almost whipped all the art out of me.” Augusta Savage
- 6. Augusta Savage withher sculpture ‘Realisation’ (now lost) c. 1938
- 7. Three women enjoyinglife in the Roaring Twenties in Harlem, New York In the words of the American historian David Blight, a speech given by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913, “was a Jim Crow reunion, and white supremacy might be said to have been the silent, invisible master of ceremonies.”
- 8. Map showing maindestinations of black southern Americans during the Great Migration 1900 - 1930
- 9. Photograph of AugustaSavage by Carl Van Vechten THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE IN NEW YORK It was this migration that fuelled the Harlem Renaissance in New York and Augusta Savage was part of it.
- 10. Meta Vaux WarrickFuller 1877 – 1968
- 11. Meta Vaux WarrickFuller Memorial to Mary Turner 1919
- 12. Meta Vaux WarrickFuller Ethiopia 1921
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- 16. W.E.B. Du Bois 1868- 1963
- 17. W.E.B. Du Bois 1868- 1963
- 18. Photograph of AugustaSavage by Carl Van Vechten Cooper Union, New York
- 19. Cover of the1924 Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts prospectus
- 20. Cover of the1924 Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts prospectus Participants in 1923
- 21. Ernestine Rose and W.E.B.Du Bois
- 22. Letter from ErnestPeixotto to Ernestine Rose, 23 April 1923
- 23. Letter from ErnestPeixotto to Ernestine Rose, 23 April 1923
- 24. Letter from W.E. B. Du Bois to Howard Greenley and another to Peixotto, both3 May 1923
- 25. Letter from W.E. B. Du Bois to Cooper Union Cooper Union wrote back to say ‘Miss Savage’s record for work in our school has been excellent, and her conduct irreproachable.’
- 26. In his replyto du Bois, one committee member, Gamble Rogers, said he did not take an active part in the decision making process
- 27. In his replyto du Bois, one committee member, Gamble Rogers, said he did not take an active part in the decision making process, but he noted: He also expressed concern that du Bois was about to make trouble:
- 28. Reply from ThomasHastings
- 29. Reply from HermonA. MacNeil
- 30. “Famous Artists Reject Applicationof Negress for Term in French School on Racial Grounds—Fear of Objections.” Herald Democrat, 28 April, 1923
- 31. Article in TheRichmond Planet, 16 June 1923
- 32. Statement put outby the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- 33. “The request (tostudy at Fontainebleau) of a young black woman, Madamoiselle Augusta Savage, a student at the Cooper Institute sculpture department, has been rejected under the pretext of a defect of form, but in reality because Miss Savage was due to embark on the same ship as the white art students , some of whom had vowed to not leave their country if a woman of colour came to France…. “At a moment in time when black art arouses in us such fervent admiration, an artist who is black is to be excluded permanently from the Academy of Fontainebleau?” Gaston Derys L'Intransigeant 11 May 1923
- 34. Article in TheNorthern Whig newspaper 12 May 1923
- 35. Article in TheDallas Express 9 June 1923
- 36. Augusta Savage The Gamin 1929 In1929, she received a prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, and she was off to Paris. The fellowship was mainly the result of her sculpture “The Gamin,” which depicted a street urchin, which her nephew posed for. She stayed in Europe until 1932, travelling to Italy while there. On her return to New York in 1932 she faced the problems of the Great Depression.
- 37. Reply from HermonA. MacNeil
- 38. Hermon A. MacNeil EzraCornell 1919 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- 39. Hermon A. MacNeil CivilWar Soldiers and Sailors 1921 Philadelphia
- 40. Hermon A. MacNeil Comingof the White Man (Chief and Medicine Man of the Multnomah Tribe) 1904
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- 42. Augusta Savage withher sculpture ‘Realisation’ (now lost) c. 1938
- 43. Augusta Savage withher sculpture ‘The Harp’ (now destroyed) c. 1939
- 44. ‘The Harp’ Cover ofThe Crisis April 1939
- 45. Augusta Savage ‘The Harp’ atthe New York World Fair 1939
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- 48. Norman Lewis 1909 -1979 Norman Lewis Self portrait 1939
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- 55. Gwendolyn Knight The WhiteDress 1999
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- 57. Augusta Savage ‘Bust ofGwendolyn Knight’ 1934
- 58. Augusta Savage “I havecreated nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent, I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.” Augusta Savage