DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Detroit Michigan Newspaper Article_1903

Newspaper article torn in half to fit onto the scrapbook page. Contains the title 'Arts and Crafts' overlaid on a tree with knotted roots. Beneath that is 'The Wretched/ Strange and Powerful Piece of Sculpture by a Philadelphia Mulatto Girl." On second piece is a headshot of Meta with text beneath 'Miss Meta Warrick, A Mulatto Who is Becoming Known as a Sculptor." Above the second piece of this article is written in pencil "Detroit Mich./ July 21-1903" Text is as follows: "Several American women are winning fame in the field of sculpture, and one of the most noted is the young Philadelphia mulatto girl, Miss Meta Vaux Warrick, whose work is creating much comment on both sides of the sea. Miss Warrick is the sculptor whose masterly expression of strange and original thought led the celebrated Rodin to give her special attention during the three years she spent studying in Paris. This young girl has known all the hardships and struggles of lonely student life in the great French City, and while also struggled wrought her emotions into her work, which is expressive of the despair which often overtook her. However success was near. When she was (this paragraph is crossed out with a blue pencil) scarely 19 years of age she took one of her models to Rodin. He recognized the genius in her handiwork, and from that time on she was his protege. One of the finest pieces of her work, 'The Wretched', a copy of which is shown on this page, so attacted the attention of M. Bing, the great French Sculptor, that he had it cast in bronze. Art-loving Paris was amazed at this example of the young girl's work, of whihc it has been said that 'the original conception, the movement of palpitating life, the masterly grouping, would be remarkable for a mature man.' Miss Warrick has a great field open to her, and every promise of being able to fill it ot the satifsaction of her fellow artists. She is Philadelphian born and bred, and at the School of Industrial Art she received the education and encouragement necessary to send her to Paris to study, and, after her return home, the first public recognition of the art world, for she is now on the school board of control."

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Arts and Crafts' Detroit Michigan, July 21, 1903

1903