Betye Saar

African American sculptor · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1926 · age 100

Betye Irene Saar is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity.

Betye Saar is read about 103 times a day, in 14 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2012Anonymous Was A Woman AwardAward1991Guggenheim FellowshipAward1989Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1926Born30 July 1926

People around Betye

Family

Parents

Betye Saar

Partners

Former spouse Richard Saar

Children

Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.

Correct this family

Also in Deutsch

Media & music

Photos 3

Saar in 2016

Bettye Saar with fellow UCLA Bruin Kareem Abdul-Jabbar receiving The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Henry Louis Gates at Harvard on October 6, 2022.

Awards

Anonymous Was A Woman Award2012

Guggenheim Fellowship1991

Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award1989

About this person

Her work is considered highly political, as she challenged negative ideas about African Americans throughout her career; Saar is best known for her artwork that critiques anti-Black racism in the United States.

Country

United States