Water Boy

Item

Artist

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Title

Water Boy

Date

before 1939

Medium

painted plaster

Accrual Method

"I met Augusta Savage during the New York World's Fair. I went down. She had a little exhibition hall where she exhibited her things. I went to see her exhibit and I wandered around while she entertained a couple who were visiting there. When they left I went and introduced myself. She fell on my neck. Clayton Carl's (sp?) father had induced me to write to Augusta Savage when she was a student and urge her on. Encourage her. I did that. I never got an answer. I don't know if she got the letter. She must have gotten the letter. At any rate she knew of me. I had sent two pieces. I love to interpret music in my sculpture. I had made two interpretations of the song "Water Boy" and I sent them to her. She asked me if she could keep one of them to exhibit and I told her she could. She never returned it. She was supposed to return it. So she must have that still." Dannett Transcript, p. 48

Provenance

Augusta Savage to Schomburg, 2004, as part of a gift from Savage's granddaughter Lorraine Lucas.

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture