In 1923, a committee rejected her program for a summer art program in France due to her race.
Savage contested the decision to no avail.
However, committee member and sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil championed Savage’s work, eventually becoming her teacher.
Andrew Herman (active 1930s–1940s), Federal Art Project, Works Progress AdministrationAugusta Savage with her sculpture Realization, 1938 (Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, Photographs and Prints Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 86-0036) (Photo:New York Historical Society[Public Domain])
Du Bois for the Harlem Library.
He had come to live with Savage after his home in Florida was damaged by a hurricane.
And the president of the Rosenwald Fund, Edwin Embree, even ordered a cast of Gamin for himself.
Augusta Savage, “Portrait of a Baby,” 1942(Terracotta, 10 x 8½ x 8 in.Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY) (Photo:New York Historical Society[Public Domain])
The Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts later became theHarlem Community Art Center.
In addition to teaching, Savage was dedicated to advocacy.
The guild dissolved in 1941, and the Harlem Community Art Center closed the following year.
Unidentified photographer,Augusta Savage viewing two of her sculptures, Susie Q and Truckin, c. 1939 (Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, Photographs and Prints Division, Art & Artists-Prophet, Nancy-Stull, Henry, 92-0360 Box 6) (Photo:New York Historical Society[Public Domain])
Savage lived in Saugerties until she died in 1962.
Portrait of Augusta Savage (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public Domain])
