{"id":301,"date":"2020-09-03T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/?p=301"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:43:24","slug":"augusta-christine-fells-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/2020\/09\/03\/augusta-christine-fells-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Augusta Christine Fells Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage\u2019s legacy is as inextricably tied to her role as an instructor and mentor to important African American artists of the postwar era as it is to her own artistic production. With only five dollars to her name, she escaped the limitations of prejudice and poverty of her small Florida hometown and moved to New York to pursue the study of sculpture\u2014only to confront the same barriers. Her best-known work, <em>Gamin<\/em>, takes its title from the French word for \u201cstreet urchin\u201d and depicts a jaunty, albeit slightly disheveled, young boy. Long thought to be a likeness of the artist\u2019s nephew, <em>Gamin <\/em>exists in a liminal space between individual portrait and generic type. Savage executed several bronze casts of <em>Gamin <\/em>and continued to make plaster versions into 1930; it is unclear how many she completed or how many survive<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage\u2019s legacy is as inextricably tied to her role as an instructor and mentor to important African American artists of the postwar &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/virtual-gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}