Legendary Artist Dies Days Before Her 100th Birthday

Santiago Felipe / Getty Images Groundbreaking artist Betye Saar has died days before her 100th birthday. Saar’s death in her sleep on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles was confirmed to the Los Angeles Times by her publicist Hannah Gottlieb-Graham. Saar would have turned 100 on July 30. She specialized in assemblage art, making sculpture from found objects, and her work confronted stereotypes about Black women. Her 1972 assemblage, “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” featured a mammy figurine– a…