Students in Augusta Savage's sculpture class at the Harlem Community Center in 1939 — source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Harlem Community Art Center: students in sculpture class, 290 Lenox Avenue" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939.
Augusta Savage's unfinished sculpture "After the Glory" in her studio (her attempt to create a war memorial to African American military service) — source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "View of Augusta Savage's unfinished sculpture "After the Glory"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939.
"Pumbaa" Statuette by Augusta Savage (1939) — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Statuette by Augusta Savage entitled "Pumbaa"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939.
Augusta Savage presenting model of "Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)" to Grover Whalen — Source: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Art - Sculpture - Harp (Augusta Savage) - Augusta Savage presenting model to Grover Whalen" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935 - 1945.
Bust of unidentified youth by Augusta Savage — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Bust of unidentified youth by Augusta Savage" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1930 - 1939.
Passport photograph of sculptor Augusta Savage, date stamped August 25, 1931 —Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Passport photograph of sculptor Augusta Savage, date stamped August 25, 1931" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1931.
Life Every Voice and Sing (The Harp) — Source: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Art - Sculpture - Harp (Augusta Savage) - Harp" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935 - 1945.
Augusta Savage's palette — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Augusta Savage's painter's palette" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1930 - 1939.
Augusta Savage with two of her statuettes, entitled (left to right) “Susie Q” and Truckin’” — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Augusta Savage with two of her statuettes, entitled (left to right) “Susie Q” and Truckin’”" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939.
Bas Relief of a Female Dancer (1959) — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Bas Relief of a Female Dancer" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1959.
New York SP Savage, Augusta, House and Studio — Source: National Archive Catalogue
"Envy" sculpture in wood (1938) — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. ""Envy" sculpture in wood" The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Augusta Savage with her sculpture "Realization" (1936) — Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Augusta Savage with her sculpture "Realization"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1936.
Augusta Savage making 'Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)" — Source: Searchable Museum, “Augusta Savage’s Monument”
CIRCA 1938 Augusta Savage with a chow puppy-leading African American artist — Source: ChowTales archive — circa 1938 photograph of Augusta Savage with a chow puppy
To Live in Bronze,” New York Amsterdam News, February 17, 1932, 3, box 445, folder 2, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives — source: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727549
Augusta Savage with guests at the opening of the First Annual Exhibition of the Salon of Contemporary Negro Art, 1939 (Making her the first African-American woman to have her own art gallery in the U.S.) — source: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2025/04/10/documenting-legacy-augusta-savage-through-photographic-lens
New York SP Savage, Augusta, House and Studio — Source: National Archive Catalogue
New York SP Savage, Augusta, House and Studio — Source: National Archive Catalogue
Augusta Savage working on War Mothers, cover of Responsibility 1, no. 1 (October 1943), box 1, folder 4, Augusta Savage papers, Sc MG 731, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library source: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727549
Augusta Savage working on War Mothers, cover of Responsibility 1, no. 1 (October 1943), box 1, folder 4, Augusta Savage papers, Sc MG 731, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library source: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727549
New York SP Savage, Augusta, House and Studio — Source: National Archive Catalogue
New York SP Savage, Augusta, House and Studio — Source: National Archive Catalogue