Harlem Renaissance Visual Arts- Sculptors

Augusta Savage- 1900-1962 
sculptor, activist, educator

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” Lift Every Voice and Sing
 (The Harp), 1939

plaster sculpture created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, exhibited outside the

Contemporary Art Building height app. 16’ (destroyed after the fair).

"Gamin"  Bronze, 1929
Painted plaster 9x5 ¾ x 4 3/8 in.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

 HENRY BANNARN, 1910-1965 
artists, Sculptor, teacher

"Cleota"  Painted plaster, 1932
  17x7 1/4x9 1/4 inches. Signed, dated "6/9/32" and inscribed "To Cleota" in the plaster, 
at the rear of the neck truncation. Titled in the plaster, at the front edge of the base . 
Provenance: private collection.




"Applied Art is that art which has a use or can be used. . . . Fine Art is that art which has no use, save its esthetic value and beauty, the size of the work has nothing to do with whether it's applied or fine arts. . . . Connoisseurs both in America and a broad [sic] have my works in their collections as fine arts, in 1934 I was listed as an American Sculptor,-medium Wood carving. . . . I am of the opinion that [the curator] doesn't know very much about art. "Leslie Garland Bolling to Evelyn S. Brown, 27 March 1939, Harmon Foundation Papers, Library of Congress.

LESLIE GARLAN BOLLING  1898-1955 
wood carver, teacher
He also completed a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House. 

Aunt Monday 1932, Wood, Courtesy of Joseph L. Antrim

Cousin-on-Friday, 1935 Maple 6 ¾ x 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches

Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Alexander W. Weddell

Richmond Barthé 1901-1989 sculptor

Blackberry Woman, modeled by 1930, cast 1932

bronze 35 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Pair of Busts  Booker T. Washington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1928

 Painted plaster 20 x 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 and 18 x 7 3/4 x 9 Private Collector

SARGENT CLAUDE JOHNSON 1888-1967

sculptor, potter, painter, ceramist, print-maker, carver

  Mask ,1933 
Swan Galleries/private collector

Chester, 1930 
sculpture painted terracotta 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them

life is a broken winged bird

that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes