Augusta Savage's 'Gamin' Earns Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for Paris Study

In 1929, a photograph of Augusta Savage's plaster bust 'Gamin' (French for 'street urchin'), a portrait of her nephew Ellis Ford, appeared on the cover of Opportunity magazine. The image so impressed the Julius Rosenwald Fund that it awarded Savage a fellowship to study in Paris. 'Gamin' is considered her finest work and one of the masterpieces of Harlem Renaissance sculpture, now held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.