DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Public Ledger Newspaper Article_1905

Newspaper article with headline "Art and Artists" with pencil notation above "Public Ledger" and to the left side "Sun Jan 17" Article is as follows: "A significant group of statuettes, portrait busts and studies, as well as a number of examples of pottery, the work of the interesting young sculptor, Meta Vaux Warrick, was exhibited for the first time yesterday afternoon at the School of Industrial Art, at Broad and Pine streets, where it will remain on view for three weeks. It is only possible here to indicate briefly the importance of this small group of work, which is characterized by a breadth of conception and a vividness of imagination that make it poarticularly noteworthy. Except to the few who have been following the trend of modern artistic expression, the collection may prove generally disagreeable. There is not a "pretty" thing in the room, if we except some of the pottery, and as very few of the works shown are more than sketches, the exhibition will probably make but a small appeal to the general public. That Miss Warrick is a very close student of the human anatomy is at once apparent, and while her statues are not "finished", in the accepted sense of the term, one of them is lacking in its suggestion of a definite idea expressed. Crude and rough they may be, but each one (some more successful than others) is evidently the result of profound thought. They display a mentality far above the ordinary and all bear the imporit of the artist's unusaul personality. As pure negro blood runs in Miss Warrick's veins, her achievement, viewed in the light of accepted standards, is the more remarkable. After having been graduated from the Art School here, she went to Paris in 1899, where she studied drawing for the first half year under Raphael Collin, the figure painter, and later modeling, under Carles. For a year she worked at the Academie Colarossi and attended lectures on anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Injalbert. Her work was approved by Rodin, whose influence it shows in a marked degree. There is nothing in the present exhibition which is not a concrete expression of thought or of some metaphysical truth which the suffering of the world has suggested to the mind of the sculptor. It is not an agreeable exhibition, but it is a very compelling one."

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Public Ledger, Sunday, January 17, 1905

1905