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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 February 1892, 1892
- Died
- 26 March 1962, 1962
- Place of birth
- Green Cove Springs
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- female
- Family name
- Savage
- Spouse
- Robert Lincoln Poston
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance
- Genre
- portrait
- Occupation
- sculptor, human rights defender, artist, educator
- Citizenship
- United States
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, National Gallery of Art Library
- described by source
- Notable Black American Women, National Gallery of Art Library Vertical Files, Directory of Southern Women Artists, St. James Guide to Black Artists, American Women Sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions, Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, American Women Artists, Past and Present: A Selected Bibliographic Guide, Wegbereiterinnen, Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
- educated at
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Cooper Union
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- has works in the collection
- George and Joyce Wein Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical, Studio Museum in Harlem
- influenced by
- Félix Benneteau-Desgrois
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Augusta Savage
- place of burial
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- residence
- Harlem, Augusta Savage House and Studio
- work location
- New York City, Paris, Saugerties
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