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    Groundbreaking Leaps

    Jan 14, 2021 5 minutes
    BY KRIS MANTY
    Wikimedia Commons/
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    Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

    Artist Augusta Savage was born a Leap Year baby and once said, “It seems to me that I have been leaping ever since.” And she did, indeed, make groundbreaking leaps from the Jim Crow South to public attention in the Harlem Renaissance. Also an educator and activist, Savage was the first African American woman to open her own art gallery in America, forged a path for women of color in the art world, and catalyzed social change.

    She also viewed the work of her students as being her legacy, but her own work is just as important, and some of her sculptures have been selling at auction for thousands of dollars. One, titled , circa 1929,

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