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Augusta Savage

1967
20th C.
North America, U.S.A.
24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

By (primary)
Gwendolyn Knight American, born in Barbados, 1913–2005

Medium: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Herbert J. Kayden and Family in memory of Dr. Gabrielle H. Reem

Accession Number: 2013.91

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Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of American Art, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University:
This moving tribute to Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence’s teacher, friend, and fellow artist Augusta Savage (1892–1962) was completed ﬁve years after Savage’s death. In the 1930s, Savage directed the Harlem Art Workshop, one of the largest free art education programs in New York City. There, Savage taught and mentored Knight Lawrence and her future husband, the artist Jacob Lawrence. In addition to showcasing aesthetic import, this work is a rare portrait of a black woman artist by one of her peers. The painting’s existence calls attention to the representational absence of black women—on either side of the canvas—within the history of art.

Provenance

Gabrielle Reem and Herbert Kayden, New York, NY; given to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2013.

Bibliography

Elizabeth Mitchell, "Promised Land the Art of Jacob Lawrence," Cantor Arts Center, exhibition catalogue (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, 2015). cat. no. 10, pg. 77, repr.;

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