Research Guides: Harlem Renaissance: Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage, sculptor

Augusta Savage Biography
Short biography from The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History.

photo of Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage. This work is in the Public Domain.

The Black Woman Artist Who Crafted a Life She Was Told She Could Not Have
2021. New York Times. To get free access to article, go to https://libguides.westvalley.edu/nytimes and follow instructions on how to subscribe.
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At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage fought racism to earn acclaim as a sculptor, showing her work alongside de Kooning and Dalí. But the path she forged is also her legacy.
Augusta Savage, a renowned sculptor and civil rights activist
New York Amsterdam News, Dec. 2013.
Augusta Savage: the extraordinary story of the trailblazing artist
2019. The Guardian Newspaper.

Augusta Savage
Smithsonian Institution.
Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students
4 min. Radio Program, Morning Edition, NPR. 2019.
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
2019 Exhibition of the New York Historical Society.