Eugene Savage
Eugene Francis Savage was an American painter and sculptor known for his murals in the manner made official under the Works Projects Administration. He also is known for his work on the Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York and the Alma Mater mural featured in the Sterling Memorial Library on the campus of Yale University located in New Haven, CT.
Savage was born in Covington, Indiana. In 1915, while studying at the Chicago Art Institute, he won the Rome Prize in painting, enabling him to study at the American Academy in Rome, where he received a bachelor of arts degree. Later he received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Savage subsequently taught at the Yale School of Art and Architecture for twentyeight years, where he was the Leffingwell Professor of Painting amp Design.
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