The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage
Sidedoor
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The Okachobi Hurricane killed almost 2,000 people in the United States. Augusta Savage's brother was killed in the hurricane and her family moved to New York City with nowhere to go. She asked her young nephew Ellis to stand in the kitchen and got to work on a portrait of his face.
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