Research Catalog

Title

Augusta Savage portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1925?-1989?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Federal Art Project.

Description

• <2> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
• <3> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of sculptor Augusta Savage consisting of individual quarter-length studio portraits; a group portrait of Savage with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and teachers Gwendolyn Bennett, Louise Jefferson and Sarah West at the Harlem Art Center (1937); and in a group portrait with Ernestine Rose, branch librarian of the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library, and Roberta Bosley Hubert, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild, at the presentation of Savage's bust of Johnson (1939).

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Bennett, Gwendolyn
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• African American women artists
• West, Sarah
• Women sculptors > United States
• Group portraits > 1930-1939
• Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961
• Hubert, Roberta
• Jefferson, Louise E
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1920-1989
• Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962
• Portrait photographs > 1920-1939

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1920-1939.
• Group portraits – 1930-1939.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Photographers include W.P.A. Federal Art Project.
• Some photographs are duplicates; some have written descriptive information; one photograph is missing a corner.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Savage, Augusta

OCLC

NYPG087000397-F

Title

Augusta Savage portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1925?-1989?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Federal Art Project.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Savage, Augusta