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The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage

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The Legacy of Augusta Savage

Savage's Gamal sculpture is on permanent display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. miniature statuettes of lift every voice and sing have been passed down in families who attended 1939 World's Fair. Almost every major artist of the next generation, from Norman Lewis to Jacob Lawrence, William Artis, Morgan and Marvin Smith,. came to the idea of making art by finding themselves at Augusta Savage's schools.

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