Boston Transcript_1918
Item
Title
Boston Transcript_1918
Description
Newspaper article in small typeface in two sections. Next to the article written in pencil is "Boston Transcript sat. Nov. 16, 1918" The article is as follows: "That we have our own deep-seated race prejudices to conquer, and our own race problems of the most serious nature to solve, was borne in upon the Listener the other day in a visit to the exhibit of sculpture by a young colored matron, Mrs. Meta Warrick Fuller, at the Soldiers' Comfort Unit in Massachusetts avenue, near Columbus avenue. Here is a colored woman's work of an arresting interest. It shows technical skill, well-trained - with gleams here and there of unmistakable excellence. It is youthful genius that has hardly unfolded as it certainly will under favoring conditions. Not that the artist has not had the best of teaching, so far as that goes in high art, having graduated from the Academy of Industrial Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, after which came three years in Paris, where she interested Rodin and exhibited in the Salon. Beside her technical merit - good modelling, anatomical knowledge - there is a certain 'gesture' in her work of the 'fine careless rapture' that is revealing and convincing, especially in certain portrait statuettes and sketches. Most of the pieces are small--chiefly groups for book-ends and odd character types. There is, however, one ambitious design for the coming peace memorial which won the prize of the Woman's Peace Party for Permanent Peace. The main figure of the design is a war-horse driven headlong by a blind rider with Death on the croup, reaching for the bridle. It is in this that the creative abandon most impresses the beholder. It has always been the Listener's belief that one broad 'way out,' open to all, for this young sculptor's race, lies through the fine arts. In fact, in every field of art - music, painting, sculpture, poetry--already there are the living examples to prove it. Art is the purest democracy in the world--ever has been, and ever must be."
Identifier
Eph1.41.137
Bibliographic Citation
"The Listener," Boston Transcript, November 16, 1918, 6
Date
1918
