Augusta Oelschig

Augusta Oelschig (June 12, 1918 – July 14, 2000) 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.