id: 162973
accession number: 2003.40
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.40
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Gamin, c. 1929. Augusta Savage (American, 1892–1962). Hand-painted plaster; overall: 44.5 x 24.2 x 20.4 cm (17 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2003.40
title: Gamin
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creation date: c. 1929
creation date earliest: 1924
creation date latest: 1934
current location: 226B American Modern
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: America
technique: hand-painted plaster
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Augusta Savage (American, 1892–1962) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 44.5 x 24.2 x 20.4 cm (17 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
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inscription: signed on right-side: "Savage"; titled across the bottom-front: "Gamin"
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Litt, Steven. "Steward Breaks New Ground with Sculptures at Library," Plain Dealer, August 15, 2021.
page number: Mentioned P. D4
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Ausherman, Maria, Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors. (Novato, CA: Goff Books, 2022).
page number: Reproduced p. 135.
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Korobin, Tess, "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage's Unbuilt Monuments, 1931-1943," American Art 37 (Fall 2023).
page number: Mentioned and reproduced p. 58.
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Cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life. June 1929.
page number: Cover
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"Une femme sculpteur noire." La Depeche Litteraire et Artistique (Aug/Sept. 1930) .
page number: Mentioned: p. 5
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"Harlem's Community Center." Marcia Minor. Daily Worker, August 1, 1938.
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Stromberg, Suzanne Schell. "Afro-American Art of the Harlem Renaissance." (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973).
page number: Mentioned: p. 83
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Leininger-Miller, Theresa A. New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
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Litt, Steven. "Art museum acquires top sculpture by Savage." Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 2, 2003.
page number: Mentioned: p. E1; Reproduced: p. E6
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The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine (September 2003), cover.
page number: Cover
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Robinson, William. "Renaissance Kid." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine (October 2003)
page number: Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced: p. 6
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Robinson, William, "Renaissance Kid", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 08, October 2003
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-08/page/n5
"Major Acquisitions 2000-2005." Cleveland Art 45 (July/August 2005)
page number: Mentioned: p. 14; Reproduced: p. 19
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Rosenkranz, Conner. 19th & 20th Century American Sculpture. Smithsonian Libraries, 2007.
page number: Mentioned: p. 44; Reproduced: p. 61
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Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: 132 - 133
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Gordon, Margery. "Eyes on the Prizes." Art & Auction (February 2008)
page number: Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 117
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Cole, Mark, "Jacob Lawrence's Fulton and Nostrand", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 2, February 2008
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-02/page/6
Cole, Mark. African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: p. 3, 20
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 58
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Brown, Marilyn. The Gamin De Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary. New York : Routledge, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: p. 118-119; Reproduced: pl. 24.
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Adams, Henry. "The Invisible Man: William Robinson." CAN Journal (Spring 2017): 80-83.
page number: Reproduced: p. 82
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Korobkin, Tess. "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage's Unbuilt Monuments, 1931-1943." American Art 37, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 48-71.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58, fig. 6
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IMAGES
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