<I>Nude Torso</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1931-1935
name: label: Created by
content: Augusta Savage, American, 1892 - 1962
label: Subject of
content: Edythe Williams Scott, American
notes: label: Caption
content: "From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida, I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud."
label: Caption
content: Augusta Savage was a highly regarded civil rights activist, educator, community leader, and artist. She came to New York in the 1920s and earned an art degree from Cooper Union. Known for her sculpture, Savage chose black models to celebrate the beauty of African American features.
label: Caption
content: Savage sculpted Nude Torso, in academic realist style, after returning from studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She modeled it after her former student, Edyth Williams Scott, also an artist and educator.
label: Description
content: A sculpture of painted plaster depicting a the torso of a nude woman. Painted a dark gold, the body is shown from mid-thigh to the neck. The figure bends slightly forward and to the right, with the left hand placed above the breast, palm flat and fingers spead. The right arm is held straight and slightly to the rear of the right side. The sculpture is mounted on a square block of dark wood.
place: label: Place made
content: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.233.2
objectType: label: Type
content: sculptures
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown – Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: paint on plaster with wood
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (statue): 16 1/4 × 9 × 9 in. (41.3 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (base): 2 5/8 × 10 × 7 3/4 in. (6.7 × 25.4 × 19.7 cm)