Augusta Oelschig
American painter (1918–2000)
📍 Savannah, Georgia USA
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Augusta Oelschig was an American Scene painter known for realist genre paintings of everyday life in Savannah, Georgia, and elsewhere in the American South. In mid-career, she began to incorporate social criticism into her work. In depicting victims of racism, she produced what one curator called "emotionally intense" works that set her apart from the other painters of her time and place. Her career spanned some three decades, from about 1940 to 1975.
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