Research Catalog
Augusta Savage portrait collection
- Title
- Augusta Savage portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1925?-1989?>
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Savage, Augusta | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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.
- Subject
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Federal Art Project.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Savage, Augusta