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Rediscovered Women Artists: Three African American Women Sculptors – Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, and Elizabeth Prophet

Rediscovered Women Artists: Three African American Women Sculptors – Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, and Elizabeth Prophet

by Sandra | Oct 1, 2020 | Rediscovered Women Artists

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member   Each of these women sculptors struggled with poverty and were subjected to racial discrimination their entire careers. All were associated with the Harlem Renaissance in New York City in the early 1920s. The paucity...

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