Augusta Savage

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Biography
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an American sculptor who worked during the Harlem Renaissance, was also an art teacher and community art director. Her best-known work of the 1920s was Gamin, an informal bust portrait of her nephew, for which she was awarded a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship to study in Paris in 1929.
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