The Gazette_February 11, 1905
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The Gazette_February 11, 1905
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Three clipped newspaper articles from "The Gazette, Cleveland, O., " dated "Saturday, February 11, 1905" Article is as follows: "Meta Vaux Warwick, "My Child, You Are a Sculptor," Said the Great Master, Rodin, to One of Our Girls. Philadelphia, Pa. - Miss Meta Vaux Warwick's[sic] exhibition of sculpture at the School of Industrial Art, in the rooms of the Alumni association, under whose auspices the exhibition was held, was closed to the public on the 4th, said a local daily paper recently.
Miss Warwick is of the race that has given to the world Henry Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Waddell Chesnutt. She is of pure Negro blood as far back as the fourth generation, her grandfather at that removed being a Caucasian. Her mother is a Philadelphian, her father, born in Virginia, is a Philadelphian by adoption, and Miss Warwick herself was born here 27 years ago.
To the public schools of this city is due the credit of Miss Warwick's first art impulse. Mr. J. Liberty Tadd instructed her before she entered her teens, and a scholarship from the grammar school at Twelfth and Locust streets secured her three years' instruction at the School of Industrial Art. Her work here was extended for a further two years in the normal and post graduate departments, at the end of which time, with all the honors in the power of her alma mater to confer, Miss Warwick sailed for Paris in the autumn of 1899.
In the French capital she studied drawing for the first half year under Raphael Collin, the figure painter, and for the second worked in modeling under M. Charles. Then followed a twelve month at the Academie Colarossi and lectures on anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under M. Injalbert. One day Miss Warwick took a bit of plaster, not eight inches high, to Rodin. After turning it around in silence, the master at last touched the young girl's shoulder and said: 'My child, you are a sculptor.' For a year after this Miss Warwick's work passed before the eyes of the great French realist.
The present exhibition is a work of great importance, not because Miss Warwick is the only sculptor of her race or because she is one of that group of gifted ones who, from the embers of oppression, poverty, ignorance and caste exclusion are rising, and by the simple force of individual excellence, claiming the respect and admiration of their fairer countrymen; the exhibition is remarkable on its own account. Never before, certainly not in Philadelphia, has such a showing been made. This is not saying that Miss Warwick is our greatest sculptor. She may and she may not be."
Miss Warwick is of the race that has given to the world Henry Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Waddell Chesnutt. She is of pure Negro blood as far back as the fourth generation, her grandfather at that removed being a Caucasian. Her mother is a Philadelphian, her father, born in Virginia, is a Philadelphian by adoption, and Miss Warwick herself was born here 27 years ago.
To the public schools of this city is due the credit of Miss Warwick's first art impulse. Mr. J. Liberty Tadd instructed her before she entered her teens, and a scholarship from the grammar school at Twelfth and Locust streets secured her three years' instruction at the School of Industrial Art. Her work here was extended for a further two years in the normal and post graduate departments, at the end of which time, with all the honors in the power of her alma mater to confer, Miss Warwick sailed for Paris in the autumn of 1899.
In the French capital she studied drawing for the first half year under Raphael Collin, the figure painter, and for the second worked in modeling under M. Charles. Then followed a twelve month at the Academie Colarossi and lectures on anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under M. Injalbert. One day Miss Warwick took a bit of plaster, not eight inches high, to Rodin. After turning it around in silence, the master at last touched the young girl's shoulder and said: 'My child, you are a sculptor.' For a year after this Miss Warwick's work passed before the eyes of the great French realist.
The present exhibition is a work of great importance, not because Miss Warwick is the only sculptor of her race or because she is one of that group of gifted ones who, from the embers of oppression, poverty, ignorance and caste exclusion are rising, and by the simple force of individual excellence, claiming the respect and admiration of their fairer countrymen; the exhibition is remarkable on its own account. Never before, certainly not in Philadelphia, has such a showing been made. This is not saying that Miss Warwick is our greatest sculptor. She may and she may not be."
Identifier
Eph1.41.76
Bibliographic Citation
"Meta Vaux Warrick," The Gazette, February 11, 1905, 2.
Date
1905