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Small newspaper article stating: "Sculptured work by Miss Meta Vaux Warrick will be put on view at the School of Industrial Art, Broad and Pine streets, to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock and remain on view daily, except Sunday, from noon to 5 P.M. The display is one of those arranged by the Alumni Association of the institution in question."
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Small newspaper article with pencil notation on top "S Press /29/95" and beneath "January 29th" stating: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick, continues at the School of Industrial Art, Broad and Pine, for another week her unique and interesting exhibition of her work in sculpture and in decorative pottery. Extending from her student work, through the brilliant and suggestive studies in Paris, to the careful portrait busts now occupying her, the room fully reveals a remarkable personality and unusual achievement."
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Small newspaper article stating: "The exhibition of Meta Vaux Warrick is still on view at the School of Industrial Art, at Broad and Pine streets."
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Newspaper article with the headline "the Evening Star/Saturday, January 21, 1905". The text is as follows: "Miss Warwick's Success in Sculpture. Considerable attention is being given in Philadelphia this week to Miss Meta Vaux Warrick's exhibition of sculpture. Miss Warwick is the sister-in-law of F. L. Cardozo, supervising principal of the thirteenth division, colored, of the Washington public schools. She has made her name stand for the highest things in art, and is regarded as on a plane with Henry Tanner, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and other prominent members of her race. Her work is described as a little below the average in technique, but of unusual strength. In her choice of original themes she is said to be remarkable. Never before has such a showing been made in Philadelphia, according to an art critic of that city."
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Article with headline "American Art News" and the text "The sculptural work of Meta Vaux Watn [sic] will continue on view at the School of Industrial Art, Broad and Fine Streets, Philadelphia, until Feb. 4 every day except Sunday from noon until 5 o'clock." Below this is "New York, January 21st, 1905."
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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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Newspaper article in five sections across two pages of the scrapbook. In pencil above in cursive is written "Philadelphia Press" and beneath that between the first two sections of article is "1/15/05". The article is a detailed write up of her exhibiton at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Next to the last section of the article is a handwritten name "Elizabeth Dunbar" on a separate piece of paper - maybe the person who cut out and sent her the article? The overall article is long and a full transcription can be found on the server.
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Newspaper article in three sections. Header is separate and states "Ossining, N Y., Monday September 12, 1904." The article is in two sections and is as follows: "A Distinguished Visitor. The Sculptor, Miss Meta Wan Warrick, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in town visiting Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parker, and her friend, Mrs. J. W. Hoffman, Jr., of Durston Avenue. The following is one of the many articles written in reference to Miss Van Warrick's work both here and abroad: 'Several American women have won fame in the field of sculpture, and one of the most noted is the young mulatto girl, Miss Meta Van 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 thoughts led the celebrated Rodin to give her special attention during the three years she spent studying in Paris. 'This young woman has known all the hardships and struggles of lonely student life in the great French City, and while she struggled wrought her emotions into her work, which is expressive of the despair which often overtook her. However, success was near. when she was scarely nineteen years of age she took one of her models to Rodin. He recognized the genius in her handiwork, and from that time on hse was his protege. 'One of the finest pieces of her work, "The Wretched," so attracted the attention of M. Bing, the great Art Connoissseur of Paris, that he had it cast in bronze. Art loving Paris was amazed at this example of the young girl's work, of which it has been said that, 'the orignal 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 to the satisfaction of her fellow artists. She won the first prize, $25.00 for a jardiniere in June, 1904, being also a student in Pottery. 'Miss Warrick is Philadelphia 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 Alumni Board of Control. 'In her studio, 210 South Camac Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Miss Warrick works from sunrise to sunset. Her studio is her world, and the figures her fingers have modeled into form are her companions. She has finished life-sized statues as well as busts, groups as well as single figures, and in every instance her work has been bold and free in outline. 'Two of her works "The Thief on the Cross" and "The Wretched" have been exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1903. 'This is a list of subjects nearly completed by Miss Warrick: "The Violist," "Mother and Child", "Portrait of the Sculptor", "The Sphinx." 'The following are subjects about to be worked up by the sculptor: "Prospective," "The Young Devil," "Studies of Colored Children," "Fire."
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Newspaper article with large image of a sculpture and a small article pasted besides. Image has the text beneath "'The Wretched' One of Miss Warrick's Weird Bits of Statuary (Women Sculptors Challenging Fame.) The article is as follows: "One could not think of using the old term 'sculptress' in speaking of Meta Vaux Warrick, the young Philadelphia mulatto girl whose work has reated a future both in this country and abroad. She is a Philadelphian born and bread, 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. She has known all the harships of lonely young student life in the great French city, and much of her work was expressive of her despair. When she was scarely 19 she took one of her models to Rodin, and from that time on she was his special protege. One of the finest pieces of work, "The Wretched," M. Bing, the great French sculptor, had cast in bronze, and artistic Paris was amazed at the work - the originating life, the masterly grouping would be remarkable for a mature man."
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Newspaper article in two sections. Title is 'Craftsmen's Work in Four Exhibits/ School of Industrial Art Has Largest Collection on View at the Handicrafters Have Smallest, But in Point of Excellence the Best - News of the Studio'. Article goes into several exhibitions around Philadelphia. Meta is mentioned at the very end: "...The few pieces of sculpture in the exhibition are quite noticeably above the average of work usually seen at schools. The exhibitors are Miss Meta Vaux Warrick and Mr. Salvador Belotti, both of whom are showing portrait busts. Miss Warrick exhibits also some of her small figure compositions, which express with much dramatic force certain abstract ideas."
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Newspaper article in two sections with pencil notation above 'Philadelphia Call.-/Thurs July 9 - 1903'. Title is 'Women Sculptors/ The famous Ones of America'. Article mentions several different women sculptors from around the country. Meta is mentioned at the end of the article: "Meta Vaux Warrick showed such genius when a child that her instructors became interested and urged very earnestly that she should be sent to Paris. It was her own strongest earthly desire. Her mother pinched and saved to pay the girl's expenses. She is only twenty-three years old now. In Paris she worked desperately. One day she took to the artist Rodin a small statue of her making which proved to be the making of her, for it gave the famous artist a 'thrill,' and no mistake. It represented a man eating his own heart. Her genius lies largely in the depiction of the weird and the terrible, of tragedy, suffering and despair. Perhaps the fact that Miss Warrick has colored blood in her veins may account for this."
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Newspaper folded in half. Inside mentions several women artists, including Meta Warrick.
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Newspaper article with blue pencil 'C' in the upper left corner and evidence of a circle once around the article. Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick is at her studio 338 South Quince Street, engaged in preparing some sketches for an exhibiton of her work, which will be held in the Fall at the School of Industrial Art under the auspices of the Alumni Association of the school. Miss Warrick is also engaged in coloring the frieze of arts and crafts for which she won the prize in 1899. This will also be placed on exhibition, with the rest of Miss Warrick's work."
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Newspaper article with pencil notation beneath "News Tribune" Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick has moved her studio from 1432 South Penn Square to 338 South Quince street. Miss Warrick has been at work all winter on a number of small sketches in clay, which hear out the promise of her early work. This young sculptor has a genuine gift for catching and perpetuating in plastic form a passing phase of a subject, a mood, an expression. her imagination and originality are extraordinary and a little more carefulness of technique will put her work seriously above much of the modeling done in this country today."
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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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Newspaper article with a large painting of Meta, leaning back on a couch with a hat in her lap. Under the image is the title "A Young Philadelphia Sculptor". In pencil next to this article is "Inquirer Sunday, May 10." A small attached article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick has moved her studio from 1432 South Penn Square to 338 South Quince Street. Miss Warrick has been at work all winter of a number of small sketches in clay, which bear out the promise of her early work. This young sculptor has a genuine gift from catching and perpetuating in plastic form a passing phase of a subject, a mood, an expression. Her imagination and origniality are extraordinary and a little more carefulness of technique will put her work seriously above much of the modelling done in this country to-day."
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Small newspaper article with handwritten. In two parts with title cut out above small article. Article is as follows: "Negress Sculptor Wins Honors in Paris/ Meta Vaux Warrick, the talented young negress sculptor of Philadelphia, has received word from Paris that five of her small statues have been accepted for this year's Salon. Of these titles of three are "Mauvais Larron," (Bad Thief) "L'Homme qui a Faires" (The Dead Man?) and "Les Miserables." (The Wretched)
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Small newspaper article in French with handwritten note above 'Signal' and beneath 'Myra, 23 April' In French: "...les Malheureux, groupe en bronze de Mlle Méta Warrich [sic], une des plus belles choses que j'aie vues en ce genre depuis longtemps ; c'est d'une sauvage poésie, d'une intensité de misère et de faim qui vous font passer un frisson au coeur." In English: "...the Wretched, Miss Meta Warrick's bronze group, one of the most beautiful things I have seen like this in a long time; it is of a savage poetry, of an intensity of miscarriage and of hunger which see make pass a shiver in the heart."
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Small newspaper article in French with handwritten note above 'The Figaro' Blue lines are down each side, drawn in after printing. In French: duc, Dampt (tres joli buste d'enfant). Puis les figurines dramatiques et mouvementees de M. Nocquet, artiste de beaucoup d'avenir; les envois divers de Mmes Meta-Warrick, Lafaurie; de MM. Hugo Kaufmann, Sorensen-Ringi, Mulot, Gosen, Giessendorff, Voulot, Froment-Meurice, Saint-Lerche, Leonard, etc,"
In English: duke, Dampt (very pretty bust of a child). Then the dramatic and eventful figurines of M. Nocquet, artist of many, of the future; various contributions from Mmes Meta-Warrick, Lafaurie; by MM. Hugo Kaufmann, Sorensen-Ringi, Mulot, Gosen, Giessendorff, Voulot, Froment-Meurice, Saint-Lerche, Leonard, etc,"
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Long newspaper article with a separate headder "Philadelphia Woman is a Successful Playwright and Another a Maker of Weird Statuary" with pencil notation "The North American Sunday". The article about Meta is longwise and contains two pixel images of 'Secret Suffering (Sorrow) and "The Wretched". The article has another headder "Philadelphia Mulato Girl's Statuary Weird as Rodin's" The article is as follows: "There are women who model in clay and women who carve in marble. They sometimes produce things of beauty having lines of charm and delicacy, but in these examples of feminine art one misses that touch of power which characterizes the work of men. Let the things they do be cast in the most lasting bronze, they will yet look as soft as wax. One woman there is, indeed, who may claim exception from this mild indictment. She is Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor - one hesitates to use the term sculptress. Climb four flights of stairs in the quaint old-fashioned building, 1432 South Penn Square, rap on the door that bears her card, and it will be opened by a young mulatto woman of remarkably prepossessing appearance. She is the sculptor whose masterly epression of strange and original thought led Rodin - the celebrated, uniquel Rodin - to give her his special attention and a great deal of his valuable time during the three years of study she spent in Paris. Meta Warrick was born 23 years ago in South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, of hardworking, ambitious parents. Her mother is a hairdresser, her father was a barber. She does not know of anyone related to her who has taste or talent for art. When she went to the public schools, modeling clay was put into her hands and she found her element. Those people who in the educational movement stand up for the aesthetic principle, hoping to discover artistic talent in teh children of the people, must congratulate themseles on this young woman. It was worth while putting modeling tools into many inept fingers to discover a gift like hers. She won a scholarship in the School of Industrial Art and there carried off first prize for modeling. She is to-day on its board of control. Urgued by her instructors and aided by her self-sacrificing mother, she sailed for Paris to study the art to which she was born. There she drew under Collin, modeled the antique under Carles and had as instructors Ingalbert and Rollard. She studied the art galleries and throught long and hard, finding herself a stranger in a strange land in more ways than one. After six months of this she abandoned the paths of conventional study, took a studio and worked by herself, depending on an artist friend for criticism. Thus she labored, alone but not lonesome, so eager and earnest that she frequently forgot to eat the food she had purchased with her scanty allowance. Despair came to her after - the black despair of the artist possessed by talent too great to be set aside or destroyed. When she was scarcely nineteen she took to Rodin a small clay which caused him, who had seen and known so much, to gasp at its power and daring. It was the study of a man eating his heart. In some strange, obscure way which one shrinks at analyzing, she has drawn the heart from the breast of an agonized man and put it into his convulsed hands where he gnaws it. It symbolizes unceasing sorrow profoundly secret and silent. Under the great master she produced rapidly. After her study with Rodin, M. Bing, of the celebrated galleries of L'Art Nouveau, threw open his salon for an exhibition of her works, of which he sold a number. The well-known art critic, Edouard Gerard, wrote a glowing preface to the catalogue and stirred Paris with interest. M. Bing had "The Wretched" cast in bronze, and when the critics saw it they called it genius. It is the expression of wretchedness in all its phases: in resignation, in despair, in torpor, in rebellion, and in defiance. The original conception, the movement of palpitating life, the mature man. As it is the work of a young girl one ponders deeply for an explaination. The answer is found, perhaps, in the artist's mixed race. The white blood in Miss Warrick's veins cannot say "It is mine," for African speaks here. In the "Man Gnawing his Heart" her Ethiopian descent expressess itself, and in all her other works there is the voice of that people. In her graceful "Spirit Dancing" with its roughly modeled face, there is a visible and mad abandon of the Voodoo. "The Impenitent Thief," starting in its unsparing truth, shows the crucified man cursing God as he dies in the determined defiance of bondage. The most nearly feminine thing that this young woman has yet done is a little fancy six inch high called "Dispair." The face is hidden, but the writhing limbs closely interlaced tell its thought. Turn it any way you choose, glance at but a part of it, and still you perceive clearly that it is the despairing remorse of a woman's heart. In all her work there is the sadness of serpent-infested swamps, the mysteris of miasmatic forests, the sombre glow of evening skies relfected in lonely payous. Yet Miss Warrick has not a morbid personality. Canaries sing in her little studio and she has a feminine fondness for pretty clothes. The fingers that modeled the "Impenitent Thief" can trim a hat with Parisian 'smartness.'
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Small magazine article on white paper. Written in French. Appears to have originally been printed in a Paris publication, then reprinted in the New York Herald. First paper in English is "The New York Herald," The article below in French: "Exposition./ Mlle. Meta Warrick, une jeune artiste americaine, qui expose en ce moment quel-ques-unes de ses oeuvres aux galeries de l'Art Nouveau, chez Bing, rue de Povence, semble etre hantee par une esthetique mouvementee tres moderne, dont la formule est evidemment due a cette ecole, dont le chef inconteste est le grand sculpteur Rodin Dans une vingtaine de petits platres, Mlle. Warrick aborde le mouvement humain sous ses formes les plus diverse avec une surete de main qui est presque d'un maitre, mais si la vie et la force humaines y sont completement representees, je dois constater a regret qui l'agreable beaute physique meme en son expression la plus simple en est absente. Il semble que l'artiste ait traduit toute son oeuvre en un groupe initule "Les Malheureux," qui indique chez son auteur une puissance et une originalite de premier ordre. Dans une oeuvre plus haute, "Le Mauvais Larron," l'article a aborde avec audace un grand morceau, dont l'execution est remarquable, mais ici encore leel a outrepasse, il me semble, les limites de la laideur humaine dans l'expression si violente qu'elle a donnee a son modele. Paris, Dimanche 10 Aout, 1902" In English: "Exhibition./ Miss. Meta Warrick, a young American artist, who is currently exhibiting some of her works at the Art Nouveau galleries, at Bing, rue de Povence, seems to be haunted by a very modern aesthetic. , whose formula is obviously due to this school, whose undisputed leader is the great sculptor Rodin. In about twenty small plasters, Miss. Warrick approaches human movement in its most diverse forms with a surety of hand which is almost of a master, but if human life and strength are fully represented there, I must note by regret that the pleasant physical beauty even in its simplest expression is absent. It seems that the artist has translated all his work into a group called "Les Malheureux," which indicates in its author a power and originality of the first order. In a higher work, "Le Mauvais Larron," the artist daringly tackled a great piece, the execution of which is remarkable, but here again feel has overstepped, it seems to me, the limits of human ugliness in the art. She gave to her models expression so violent. Paris, Sunday August 10, 1902"
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Small newspaper article, undated. There is a pencil notation next to it '2500 F', a correction to the article. Article is two pieces glued together. Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Warrick has received a commission for a portrait bust of the late William Still. Recently Miss Warrick received a letter from M. S. Bing of the L'Art Nouveau, Paris, to whom she sold a group called "The Wretched" after her exhibition there last June, who writes that it has been cast in bronze and it is admirably done, and has been sold for 1500 francs. Mr. Bing also wrote Miss Warrick some suggestions in regard to sending work to him, as the people who have seen the few pieces she left at the L'Art Nouveau are anxious to see more of her work. Miss Warrick has a very interesting studio at 1432 South Penn Square."
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Long newspaper article with handwritten above in pencil 'Sunday Inquirer/ Dec 19-1902(or 3). Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Warrick has taken a studio 1432 South Penn Square. She has just returned from three years' study in Paris where she worked alone in her own studio. Rodin criticised her work and no one can look at the pieces she has brought back without feeling how much she has been influenced by her great master. Perhaps the best is a fine head of John the Baptist, a type of vigorous and exalted youth. A portrait study of a young girl is very pleasant. But the main interest of her work is comprised in ten or twelve small casts - groups and signle figures. These are truely Rodinesque through their intensity of thought expression. And what thoughts! One could more readily understand them in a strong man, but hardly in a young and happy girl. All violent or fantastic, they are too sugestive of a Maupassant, they show a morbidness, a lack of altruism from which one shrinks. Her "Oedipus" is an image of anquish, he has torn his eyes from their bleeding sockets and kneels, his face upturned as if with a terrible effort at sight. In another, "Death," a grizly horror leans on his staff and laughts while the wind blows his long cloak. "The Cloud" shows a fantastic group of figures. Those beneath are bent with sorrow and pain, they wring their arms and allow their streaming hair to hide the light of day, those above clasp their hands meekly or look upward with joyous countenances. They see the bright uses of the heavens whatever sorrow is under their feet. Her "Primitive Woman" is a cat-like creature, terribly near the brute, who crawls along with a strange questioning face. Rather more pleasant is one called "The Flame," an upward curling tounge of fire, which is all compact of sinuous creatures, some beautiful, some repulsive, what any dreamer might see in the fierce element. All her work has a value. Its very abandon makes it effective; with a more mature judgement and a stronger technique it would be powerful. All that she needs is technique to be the master of brute facts and make bone and muscle spring into life under her hands. That one acquired, it only means study, she might be anything she wished. The blood of the long enslaved negro runs in her veins and inspires her with weird conceptions and strange Heina-like contrasts. All the feelings of her race, the 'hants' and 'spirits' of the South, the bitter philosophy of the North may find spledid expression in her."
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Large, folded article about Meta Warrick and her sculptures from the Philadelphia Sunday Press October 19, 1902. It is quite an impressive spread, with lots of text and images of her works. Images include one of her seated facing right and three works: 'John the Baptist', The Thief on the Cross', and one of her workong on a standing nude. Headline is as follows "The only Sculptress of her Race. Meta Vaux Warrick a Philadelphia colored girl wins fame and honor in the art schools of France. Foreign masters and critics declare that her works reveals a master of the Sculptor's Art that promises Great Results in the Future. she is a product of the Art Schools of This City." Full typed article will be found on the server. The article notes her amazing drawing tallents that won her a scholarship and goes into detail on her time in Paris, and about her setting up a studio in Philadelphia.
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Small newspaper add from an unknown newspaper. States "Only Sculptress of her race, Meta Warrick, a Philadelphia colored girl, wins fame and honor in the studios of France. Foreign critics declare that her work reveals a master skill."