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The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage

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Augusta Savage's Statue of Mania

In Paris, Augusta Savage found a supportive expat community of African-American artists. She proposed four monuments over the course of the 1930s into the early 40s to different Black American subjects. But was America ready for the radical imagination of Augusta Savage? People have more on that after the break.

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