In
1907, 15-year-old Savage married
her first husband, John T.
Moore, and had her only child,
Irene, at just 16
years
old. The marriage didn’t
last long though as Moore
died a few years later.
In
1915, Savage and her daughter
moved to West Palm Beach where
Savage met her second husband,
James Savage. With a new husband
and a new good source of clay,
Savage blossomed in West Palm
Beach.
She
created a group of sculptures
that she entered into the
annual South Florida Fair,
they were well received, winning
her the favor of the fair’s
superintendent, George Graham
Curie, who was very supportive
of her work. He even encouraged
her to go study art, despite
the racial discrimination
dividing the country.
In
the early 1920s, Savage divorced
her husband and moved to Jacksonville.
She planned to create sculptures
of famous black residents
by commission between the
years of 1920 and 1921, but
the plan did not succeed.
She
then decided to take a new
route at the end of 1921.
Dropping her daughter off
at her parent’s two-story
house on Middleburg Avenue
in Green Cove Springs, she
headed for New York City.
When
she arrived, she enrolled
at the tuition-free school
of Cooper Union to study sculpture.
School
faculty were amazed at her
talent and waived tuition
for some of her courses. The
school also presented her
with a scholarship to help
with living expenses.
“She
was a woman, which was already
difficult as an artist. On
top of that she was black,
that’s why she became
so successful. She defeated
the odds,” said Imani
Phillips, archival assistant
at the Jacksonville Historical
Society.
Average
students at Cooper Union graduated
in four years, however, the
quick-learning and talented
Savage graduated in three.
In
1923, Savage married her last
husband, Robert Lincoln Poston,
who later died the following
year.
In
the same year she married
Poston, she decided to apply
for a summer art program just
outside of Paris called Fontainebleu.
One
hundred artists were invited
to study there, but once her
application was submitted,
the board rejected her because
of her race.
“African-American
artists just they allowed
into most art schools,”
Phillips said. “Their
work just wasn’t considered
professional, so it was just
rejected. And public museums
and art studios didn’t
want to show African-American
art.”
Enraged,
Savage brought the subject
to the press during the time
of intense segregation and
was on the front headlines
of many papers. Despite the
publicity, the decision remained
unchanged.
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