Representation in Harlem Renaissance Art | Searching for Augusta Savage

Explore how Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage made powerful personal, social, and political statements with her art alongside the other artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance in this video from Searching for Augusta Savage. Her authentic and realistic depictions of Black bodies, life, and culture undermined the stereotypical images of Black people common in American culture in her time. In this resource, students examine Gamin (1929), Savage’s best-known work, and consider how art can be used to understand both culture and history.

NOTE: This resource contains language at [00:30-00:36] that is either representative of the time in which it was expressed or has evolved beyond its original use and is considered by modern standards of taste to be outdated.