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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life - Nelson, Marilyn
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Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World's Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. After being denied an artists' ...

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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life 2022, Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette

ISBN-13: 9780316298025

Hardcover