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Inscribed on bronze: M.V.W. FULLER. Inscribed on bronze: Basky Foundry NY Bronze plaque on wooden base: META WARRICK FULLER / THE WATER BOY / AMERICAN 1938
Inscribed on bronze: M.V.W. FULLER. Inscribed on bronze: Basky Foundry NY
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Baptismal font in 2 pieces: a large base with hole in center of bottom and a basin that sits on top of base. Base (A) has 8 panels around sides, each with some decoration or inscription. Decorations in panels include the markings described above as well as four kneeling angels, one in each of the remaining four panels. Grape leaves decorate the top edge of the base, demarcating the beginning/end of inscription. Stylized trees/leaves separate each of the 8 panels around the base. Basin (B) rests on base. Grapes and grape leaves decorate the rim of the basin, with the inscription described above. Paper tag ("70") attached with masking tape.
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Very large piece of a mother and child. Light orange colored paint applied to plaster. Mother appears to be sitting on a rock and is bent forward with her arms around her child. One arm of the woman is around her child, while the other is balancing her against the rock. Mother's head and child's head are together touching. Faces of both mother and child are detailed, as is the hair. Mother is wearing long, strapless dress. Great attention give to mother's toes.
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Seated female figure (robed) bending over and cradling infant.
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Two piece plaster mold with string inside and rubber insert. Rubber figure is standing and holding something in left facing hand.
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Standing man holding lamb with head titled, wearing robe and with beard and ear length hair. Lamb is right facing. Figure is barefoot. Head is broken off at shoulder. Man's hair is brown and robe is a mixture of brown and tan.
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Standing man holding lamb with head titled, wearing robe and with beard and ear length hair. Lamb is right facing. Figure is barefoot.
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Headless nude figure of boy leaning on rough rock.
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Metallic-painted bookend with standing naked child leaning on rock, with back left part of rock not painted.
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Upright female figure wearing blue headdress, short-sleeved top. Lower body is wrapped as a mummy would be. Figure's left arm is at side, with hand extended. Right hand holds end of mummy wrappings against figure's chest.
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Kneeling robed female embracing young nude standing child.
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Three figures standing against what looks like a tree that has a large hand at the top grasping each of their heads. Figures are very roughly sculpted. One is male and the other female. The third figure is female (Humanity) and has her arm on the shoulder of the male. Overall sculpture is abstract.
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in Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950), Negro Poets and their Poems. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923
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hand up
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hand down
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Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in October 1921. Incised at the back of the base: "MVW Fuller" and a copyright symbol
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Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor.
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A painted plaster sculpture bust of John the Baptist. The head is turned slightly to the left, with closely cropped hair. The face is alert, with raised chin and open eyes. There is a tall integrated mount and base extending from the bust. It features an oval roundel inscribed with the name "John." The sculpture is painted a light beige.
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Painted plaster sculpture of a female figure standing with her right hand over her heart, her left arm straight against her side with her hand extended out. Her head is turned over her left shoulder. From the hips down her legs are bound as if mummified. She wears a veil that is draped over her head and falls over her shoulders and down her back. The veil is shaped to resemble a pharaonic headdress. The figure stands on a rectangular, slightly wedge shaped pedestal. The sculpture is painted to look like copper complete with a simulated greenish patina.
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A standing female figure, with her right hand on her chest
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Sculpture of a horse pulling upward, away from humans seemingly in despair. Green in color.
Scratched on the bottom is the number 2884-1 three times; additional numbers are partially visible.
In the signature only the last name is legible. On the right foot of the horse are the letters MWF inside a rectangle.
