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Gwendolyn Clarine Knight (May 26, 1913 – February 18, 2005) was an American artist who was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the West Indies. [ 1 ] Knight painted throughout her life but did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s.
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]
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Renowned sculptor Augusta Savage had roots in Green Cove Springs and made art in Jacksonville. She's the focus of this week's Vintage Times-Union.
Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as The Harp, was a plaster sculpture by African-American artist Augusta Savage. It was commissioned for the 1939 New York World's Fair , and displayed in the courtyard of the Pavilion of Contemporary Art during the fair at Flushing Meadow .
Augusta Savage led various art classes in Harlem, and several other art leaders collaborated with the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library in establishing community workshops. [2] The Harlem YMCA also held art classes between 1934 and 1935 led by sculptor William Artis .
Augusta Savage with Realization, her WPA Federal Art Project, 1938. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was Rodin 's protegee, 1910. Sculptor Edmonia Lewis , by contrast, financed her first trip to Europe in 1865 by selling sculptures of abolitionist John Brown and Robert Gould Shaw , the Union Colonel who led the enlisted black 54th Massachusetts ...
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...