Gamin

sculpture by Savage

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Gamin is a sculpture created by Augusta Savage in 1929. It is a portrait bust depicting a streetwise young boy and is considered one of Savage's few surviving works. Savage was an American sculptor and educator who faced significant racism throughout her career as she fought for recognition for African American women in the art world. Despite challenges, she created powerful and dynamic pieces, including commissioned busts of prominent figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Gamin was instrumental in helping Savage secure a fellowship to study in Paris.1

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Augusta Savage
…works and especially the poignant Gamin (1929)—a portrait bust of a streetwise boy and one of Savage’s few extant pieces—she received a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship that enabled her finally to study in Paris in 1929–31.
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…works and especially the poignant Gamin (1929)—a portrait bust of a streetwise boy and one of Savage’s few extant pieces—she received a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship that enabled her finally to study in Paris in 1929–31.
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