The seventh of fourteen children, her father did not support his daughter’s early interest in art and in fact “almost whipped all the art out of me,” Augusta recalled later in life.

Object Details author Hayes, Jeffreen M. contributor Buick, Kirsten Pai Cooks, Bridget R. 1972- artist Savage, Augusta 1892-1962 host institution Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens New-York Historical ...

Elana Casey, the new associate director of the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is new to the Pioneer Valley, but not to promoting art – especially Black art ...