Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

A powerful biography in poems¿ about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American ...