Artist: Augusta Savage (1892 - 1962)
Nationality: African-American
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Media: Sculpture
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (50)
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Augusta Savage - The Diving Boy c. 1939 bronze The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens American
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Augusta Savage - Gamin c. 1929-30 hand-painted plaster Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Samuel Bourne - Untitled ("A regular savage") n.d. albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society British
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Thomas Gainsborough - The honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P. c. 1778-80 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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Thomas Nast A Belle Savage Wood engraving 1877
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Augusta Rathbone Roquestrian Village, France Color etching 1935
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Augusta Rathbone Russian Hill, San Francisco Color etching 1952
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Ray "Mens Sana" (Sir George Henry Savage, M.D., F.R.C.R.) Men of the Day No. 1317, from Vanity Fair Supplement Lithograph 1912
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Pieter van Sompel Empress Augusta of Germany, wife of Ferdinand Engraving 17th century
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Artist: Todd Yellow Cloud Augusta; Oglala Lakota Title: Pictographic Baby Bonnet Date: 1991 Medium: cotton,
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Georgiana Augusta Frederica Seymour (1782-1813), Later Lady Charles Bentick, 1784 Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)Oil
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Johannes Esaias Nilson Portrait of Amalia Augusta, Duchess of Saxony, born 1769 Engraving 18th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Foot soldiers and horsemen in savage battle (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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James Barry Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology, first plate in the book, A Series of Etchings ä from ä Paintings, in the Great Room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi (London: printed by W. Bulmer ä s
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Mrs. Rufus Prime (Augusta Temple Palmer, 1807-1840), 1828 Jean Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855)Card; Oval, 5
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Edward Savage - The Washington Family 1789-1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Savage - George Washington c. 1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Augusta Oelschig - Sparrows 1953 oil on canvas Telfair Museum of Art American
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Augusta Oelschig - Untitled c. early 1950's oil on canvas Telfair Museum of Art American
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe - Interior Scene n.d. oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Attributed to Thomas Smith, American, about 1650-1691 Major Thomas Savage 1679 Oil on canvas mounted
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe - Love's Young Dream 1887 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Marked by Unmarked Seal England, (London), about 1630 Silver H. (hinge open) 3.4 cm (1
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Augusta Wilhelmine Reichelt - Flowers under a lion-mask fountain n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum German
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Nicolas Africano Shield Wood, pigment, fiber tassels, rattan handle C-14 dating: 18th–19th century (inconclusive % probability)
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Peter L. Krider Company Cup with cover silver 1876
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Charles Christian Nahl Mary Ames oil on canvas 19th century
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Samuel Lovett Waldo Hosea Dugliss of New York oil on panel 18th - 19th century
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Portrait of Josephine Baker
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Plate
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Bullfight, Suerte de Varas
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Satyr
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Nicolas Africano Ceremonial house finial figure Wood, pigment C-14 dating: 1660–1890 (95.4% probability)
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Judy Kensley McKie Spear thrower ornament Wood, pigment 19th–early 20th century
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Nicolas Africano Head Clay, traces of pigment 19th–early 20th century
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Judy Kensley McKie Shield Wood, arrow points, old fiber repair C-14 dating: 1490–1670 (93.7% probability)
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Nicolas Africano Pigment dish Wood, shell, pigment 19th century
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John Coney, 1655-56–1722 Spoon United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), about 1690 Silver 19.53 cm (7 11/16
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The Daughters of Catulle Mendès (Claudine; Huguette, 1871-1964; and Helyonne), 1888 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)Oil
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Nicolas Africano Shield, Dekat Wood, pigment 19th century
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Nicolas Africano Shield Wood, bark carrying strap early 20th century
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Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850 Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901)Daguerreotype; 21.6
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Judy Kensley McKie Canoe prow ornament, Gope Wood, red pigment with traces of lime and charcoal 19th century
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Isaac Royall 1769 Oil on canvas 127 x 101.6 cm
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Judy Kensley McKie Spear thrower ornament Wood, ochre 19th–early 20th century
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Sampler United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), early 19th century Linen plain weave embroidered with silk 59.1
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Nicolas Africano Ornament for sacred flute Wood, basketry, thick encrusted pigment C-14 dating: 1640–1880 (94.6% probability)
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Nicolas Africano Drum with male figure Extremely heavy wood (Vitex cofassus), pigment, cowrie shell, rattan, mammal skin (probably pig) C-14 dating: 1490–1670 (93.4% probability)
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Nicolas Africano Lime tube finial Wood, pigment, Nassa and pearl shell C-14 dating: 1490–1660 (95.4% probability)
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White Flag, 1955 Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas; H.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (15)
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Aron Packer Gallery: Karen Savage: Lecons de mariage
Leçons de mariage translates as marriage lessons. The nuance of French is applicable here. This notion came from a book by Alice Kaplan called "French Lessons". Savage is a Francophile. Formally, there are no gray areas in French; there is a...
City Gallery: VIVA LA VIDA - Frida KAHLO, Diego RIVERA and MEXICAN MODERNISM
Frida and Diego on their wedding day… demonstrating together… meeting art patrons in America… relaxing at home with their pets… embracing tenderly at the kitchen table….The 80 photographs in Frida y Diego, Amores y Desamores (‘Love and Disaffecti...
Sherborne House and Gallery Holt: Past Perfect: Savage, Sonia Hanney and Adam Dade, Shrimpton and Bolas, Paul McGowan
Past Perfect is presented in two venues, Sherborne House and Gallery Holt in Sherborne Boys School. Savage  An old chair that looks from a distance as if it is covered in green velvet, on closer inspection reveals it is in fact covered in ...
City Gallery Wellington: Michael Hirschfeld Gallery Honours Staunch Friend of the Arts
It’s appropriate to name this space after Michael because of his passion for the arts, and his support of new talent, says Wellington Museums Trust chair, Sue Driver. The new gallery recognises his extraordinary contribution to the arts in ...
City Gallery Wellington: Conversation Pieces: Collaborative Works
Conversation Pieces features: Gavin Chilcott & Ian Wedde; Wayne Youle & Jo Randerson; Richard Reddaway & Sam Kebbell; Claire Martin & Luke Savage; Saffronn Te Ratana & Ngataiharuru Taepa; Raewyn Atkinson & Catherine Griffiths & Jenny Bornholdt;...
CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON: McCahon - A View From Urewera
McCahon’s paintings confront us and ask that we examine our lives and acknowledge the spiritual essence of our country, says Gallery director, Paula Savage. It is appropriate then that some of the greatest paintings of the second half of the 20th ...
South Australian Museum: One Hundred Years of Australian Antarctic Photography
The South Australian Museum has a fantastic collection of artefacts from the renowned South Australian explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. In addition a number of the photographs and artefacts in this exhibition come from the University of Adelaide's...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
A Question of Faith arrives in Wellington direct from the prestigious Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where large audiences experienced the New Zealand artist's work, often for the first time. "We are very proud that City Gallery Wellington is the ...
Tacoma Art Museum: Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
Evans, who grew up in Georgia and South Carolina, became interested in art when he began visiting museums while he was in the U.S. Navy during the ...
Royal Festival Hall: MELTDOWN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Simon Leigh is the first photographer to be given full access to document the Meltdown festival which is now in its eighth year and has grown to become the South Bank's highest-profile and biggest-selling festival. Every year Melt...
Wellington City Gallery: The Magic of the Everyday - CAUGHT IN THIS SENSUAL MUSIC ALL: Works by Janet Paul
The paintings of figures in their lived-in environments bring out the magical in the everyday life. They show private moments with family and friends in relaxed surroundings, during holidays in the Coromandel or while at home in Wellington. Alongs...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Modern Woman: Women Artists between the Wars
Recently discovered but in serious need of repair, a stunning painting has been restored to its former glory and added to the Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection.  A Northern Railway Town, Lake Superior c. 1935 by Rody Kenny Courtice (C...
City Gallery Wellington: Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth
From panoramic landscapes of the American west, exhibited in Wenders’ first photographic exhibition Written in the West in 1986, to colourful city vistas and streetscapes and landscapes taken on location while filming the Buena Vista Social Club i...
Wellington City Gallery: Transmission: Robert Cherry Burns Rubber
Transmission, is the first in a programme of exhibitions at the new Gallery to be presented under the banner of ‘360’. This programme is sponsored by the Wellington design company Designworks, said Paula Savage, director of City Gallery Well...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection
Many of the paintings in Pulp Art, most of them from the 1930s and 1940s, will be presented alongside the printed magazine covers for which they were created. Often melodramatic, even lurid, these images were intended to catch the eye as dozens of...

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