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My McNeil Heritage: September 9th, 1909
Posted by: | CommentsToday is the 115th
Birthday Anniversary of my mother
Ollie Francis McNeil.
- She is the source of my McNeil / MacNeil roots.
- She gave me the middle name “Neil”.
- She told me stories of my “Uncle Hermon”.
- She took me to the St. Louis Art Museum to see the Sun Vow .
- Ollie McNeil, my mom, died in 1985.
- In 2010 I created this website
- Today, there are 306 posts on
- HermonAtkinsMacNeil.Com/.
Thanks Mom, for instilling my
Scottish roots within me and planting the seeds of
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Related posts:
- Hermon A. MacNeil ~ Born February 27, 1866 ~ Needs 158 Candles this year ~~ MacNeil Month 2024 (5.9) “HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE HERMON” HE WAS BORN 158 YEARS AGO…
- Hermon MacNeil’s bust of “Lawyer Lincoln” Returns for its second century on the Illinois Circuit (5.9) Hermon MacNeil’s bronze bust of self-educated Illinois Lawyer Abe Lincoln…
- “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” Hermon & Tom Henry MacNeil ~~ MacNeil Month – Two Birthday’s (5.6) Why do we celebrate MacNeil Month each February? Two reasons:…
- Happy 153rd Birthday~ Hermon Atkins MacNeil ~ February 27, 2019 (3) TODAY marks the 153rd anniversary of the birth of Hermon…
- Connecticut History statues by H. A. MacNeil ~~ “General Alfred Howe Terry” and “Major General John Sedgwick” (2) We have recently learned that a large group of…
- Hermon MacNeil’s bronze bust of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody (1920) ~ “We Found It, Uncle Hermon!” (2) At age 78 Hermon MacNeil wrote an autobiographical sketch…
Related Images:
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Augusta Savage
[Click for more:]
at her Harlem Studio at
“Transposed Music into Sculpture”
A postcard of Augusta Savages piece, The Harp, for the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Augusta Savage, Harlem Renaissance sculptor
and student of Hermon MacNeil in 1923-24
made unique sculptures of
African American Leaders & themes.
“The Harp”
was never cast in bronze. The piece, made of plaster called staff, was destroyed after the 1933 New York Worlds Fair.
BUT, “The Harp”
was preserved in the following Video:
Click Below for a 7 min. NPR segment on
Lift-Every-Voice-and-Sing
Often referred to as “The Black National Anthem,” Lift Every Voice and Sing was a hymn written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), composed the music for the lyrics.
Augusta Savage (left) made her portrait bust of James Weldon Johnson, author of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as well as those of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey and other activist/leaders of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
https://www.artslicepod.com/episodes/episode-09-sculpting-the-future-augusta-savage-the-harp-lift-every-voice-and-sing
Elizabeth Galbreath wrote this column:
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https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/augusta-savage-gamin
