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.