Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Nelson, Marilyn
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Nelson, Marilyn

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...
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Author: Marilyn Nelson
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Language: English
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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Nelson, Marilyn

Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

BD$28.56
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Nelson, Marilyn

Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

BD$28.56
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A powerful biography in poems​ about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance--with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division 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 artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World's Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. After being denied an artists' fellowship abroad on the basis of race, Augusta Savage worked to advance equal rights in the arts. And yet popular history has forgotten her name. Deftly written and brimming with photographs of Savage's stunning sculpture, this is an important portrait of an exceptional artist who, despite the limitations she faced, was compelled to forge a life through art and creativity.

Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hach
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316298025
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2022 pg. 128
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2022
Shelf Awareness 01/04/2022
School Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 155

About the Author

Marilyn Nelson is the author of many award-winning books, including Carver: A Life in Poems, which was a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and received the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She is also the author of A Wreath for Emmett Till, which garnered the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a Coretta Scott King Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor. She lives in Connecticut.

Tammi Lawson is the curator of the Art and Artifacts Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the steward of a collection of over fifteen thousand items that visually document the Black Diaspora. The Schomburg also houses the largest collection of art by Augusta Savage in a public institution. The New York Public Library recently awarded Lawson the 2020 Bertha Franklin Feder Award for Excellence in Librarianship.
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