Inspiration (Spirit, Mind, Body)

Item

Artist

Meta Vaux Warrrick Fuller

Title

Inspiration (Spirit, Mind, Body)

Date

1919

Description

in Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950), Negro Poets and their Poems. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923

Provenance

YMCA, Atlanta, GA

Credit

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Inspiration, by Meta Warrick Fuller." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1923. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-1eba-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

"Meta Warrick Fuller, the Negro sculptress of Massachusetts, has completed a panel for the new colored Y.M.C.A. in Atlanta, Ga. The panel represents a colored youth, rising from a crouching position in response to the urge of a spirit pointing to the light, the rising sun." "Music and Art," Crisis 19, no 1, (November 1919), 350.

Location

YMCA, 22 Butler Street, Atlanta, GA