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Augusta Savage, Shades of Noir, July 9, 2020; Remembering Augusta Savage, The Only Black Woman Commissioned To Create Art For The 1939 World's Fair, gothamist, December 22, 2020; Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, Lisa E. Farrington, p. 101-107; The Crisis, April 1939, p. 97, 102
George Augustus Baker (March 19, 1821 – April 2, 1880) was an American portrait painter.. George Augustus Baker was born on March 19, 1821 in New York City. His artistic education was begun by his father George Augustus Baker, Sr. (1760-1847), an artist of merit, and his first professional years were devoted to the then popular miniatures on ivory; but he soon became a portrait painter of ...
Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. [2] She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts. [3]
George Augustus Mortimer Leigh Holmes (c. 1826 – 30 March 1911), known as George Augustus Holmes, was an English artist. Holmes worked in oils, and his subjects are mostly scenes of everyday rural life. [ 1 ]
George Augustus Williams was born on 4 May 1814 in London. He was the third son of the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780–1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland. His father was a well-known landscape artist, who ...
George Andrews (1911–1996) was a self-taught artist commonly referred to as the "Dot Man". [1] He fathered ten children, including painter Benny Andrews and novelist Raymond Andrews. [2] He was born in Plainview, Georgia, achieved a third grade education and worked as a sharecropper.
George Eugene Morgan was born to George William and Vesta Rowena Farnham Morgan of Chelsea (three and a half miles west of Gardiner, Maine).As a young man and as most in the area, Morgan found work along the Kennebec, first in Augusta with a furniture maker, then for many years as a harness maker, and then for even more years he worked in the shoe factories of Gardiner (Commonwealth Shoe ...
Augustus Goodyear Heaton (April 28, 1844 – October 11, 1930) [1] [2] was an American artist, author [3] and leading numismatist.He is best known for his painting The Recall of Columbus and among coin collectors for writing A Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints, which introduced numismatists to mint marks.