id: 162973 accession number: 2003.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.40 updated: 2025-06-28 05:02:46.191000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: America technique: hand-painted plaster department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Augusta Savage (American, 1892–1962) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 44.5 x 24.2 x 20.4 cm (17 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed on right-side: "Savage"; titled across the bottom-front: "Gamin" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Litt, Steven. "Steward Breaks New Ground with Sculptures at Library," Plain Dealer, August 15, 2021. page number: Mentioned P. D4 url: Ausherman, Maria, Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors. (Novato, CA: Goff Books, 2022). page number: Reproduced p. 135. url: Korobin, Tess, "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage's Unbuilt Monuments, 1931-1943," American Art 37 (Fall 2023). page number: Mentioned and reproduced p. 58. url: Cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life. June 1929. page number: Cover url: "Une femme sculpteur noire." La Depeche Litteraire et Artistique (Aug/Sept. 1930) . page number: Mentioned: p. 5 url: "Harlem's Community Center." Marcia Minor. Daily Worker, August 1, 1938. page number: url: Stromberg, Suzanne Schell. "Afro-American Art of the Harlem Renaissance." (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973). page number: Mentioned: p. 83 url: 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. page number: url: Litt, Steven. "Art museum acquires top sculpture by Savage." Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 2, 2003. page number: Mentioned: p. E1; Reproduced: p. E6 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine (September 2003), cover. page number: Cover url: Robinson, William. "Renaissance Kid." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine (October 2003) page number: Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced: p. 6 url: 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 url: Rosenkranz, Conner. 19th & 20th Century American Sculpture. Smithsonian Libraries, 2007. page number: Mentioned: p. 44; Reproduced: p. 61 url: 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 url: Gordon, Margery. "Eyes on the Prizes." Art & Auction (February 2008) page number: Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 117 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. url: Adams, Henry. "The Invisible Man: William Robinson." CAN Journal (Spring 2017): 80-83. page number: Reproduced: p. 82 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.40/2003.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.40/2003.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.40/2003.40_full.tif