Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life Caren Beilin In a year when all

In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore

A few months into her retirement-or

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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life Caren Beilin In a year when allThis powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance. A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education A Black Caucus ALA Children & Young Adult Award Winner A CCBC Childrens Choice A CBC Teacher Favorite Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait