International Studio_1905

Magazine article with a photograph of 'Brittany Peasant' in the lower right. In pencil next to the article is written 'International Studio/April 1905'. The article is as follows: "At the School of Industrial Art, Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, an exhibition of the work of Miss Meta Vaux Warrick was recently held under the auspices of the Alumni Association. Miss Warrick is of negro blood. After studying at the School of Industrial Art for five years, she went to Paris in 1899 where the next three years was spend in study under such masters as Collin, Carles, Injalbert and Rodin. From the latter she got much sympahty and encouragement, and her work shows his influence profoundly. As in Rodin's work, so in Miss Warrick's, strength of conception and vividness of imagination, combined with a passion for realism, are the paramount features. There was hardly a piece in the exhibition that did not depict some serious idea: some scene or phase of suffering; sometimes even a bald expression of something unpleasant, but very real. It leads one to theorize that her work is the (perhaps unconscious) expression of the trials and sorrows of a once oppressed race. The strength of feeling and the depth of insight behind the work, and the broad, almost coarse, touch of the artist that does not mince matters, but goes straight to the spot, are such as to compel attention and to deamnd careful consideration. Besides sculpture, Miss Warrick exhibited several pieces of pottery, distinguished by breadth of treatment and a distinctly sculptural treatment of the ornament."

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"Current Art Events," International Studio 25 (April 1905): 43-44.

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