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Interesting Facts About Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage was born in 1892 in Florida and became an influential sculptor and human rights activist. She faced struggles with poverty, racism, and sexism but persevered in her artistic career. Some of her notable works included portrait busts of prominent African Americans from the Harlem Renaissance period.

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Interesting Facts About Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage was born in 1892 in Florida and became an influential sculptor and human rights activist. She faced struggles with poverty, racism, and sexism but persevered in her artistic career. Some of her notable works included portrait busts of prominent African Americans from the Harlem Renaissance period.

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Did you know that Augusta was born on leap day? Well, today i am going to talk about her life.

First, Augusta was born February 29, 1892, in Green Cove Springs, Florida U.S. Her level of education
was that she completed a 4-year course in just 3 years, how crazy is that! Her jobs were a sculptor, a
visual artist, and she was a Human Rights Activist. She made a painting that inspired her to become a
Human Rights Activist. The struggles she faced were poverty, racism, and sexism.

She was married 3 times and had only one daughter. A lot of her work was made in clay or plaster, but
she did not have the funds for metal casting, so many of these works have not survived. She was turned
down for a summer art program sponsored by the French government because she was black. She was
an important artist of the Harlem Renaissance and created portrait busts of several African Americans.

Here are some interesting facts about Augusta Savage. First, Augusta Savage persevered, and the
principal of her new High school in West Palm Beach, where her family relocated in 1915, encouraged
her talent and allowed her to teach a clay modeling class. Then, in 1915, after moving to West Palm
Beach, she met and married James Augusta Savage; she retained the name Augusta Savage throughout
her life, even after the two divorced in the early 1920s. Next, in 1923, Augusta Savage married Robert
Lincoln Poston, a protege of Marcus Garvey. Augusta Savage won the Otto Kahn prize in a 1928
exhibition at The Harmon Foundation with her submission Head of a Negro.

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