Philadelphia Record_April 13, 1907

Long newspaper article with cut out newspaper title in two bars in the lower right stating "The Philadelphia Record, Monday April 13, 1907." The article is long, going into details about the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, with many objects and articles being shipped from Philadelphia to the exposition. It includes automobiles and trucks, baby shoe making, rugs, to name a few. Meta is mentioned at the end of the second column. "Negress Making Novel Exhibit. A most movel exhibit from this city will be a series of lay figures representing the progress of the negro race in America. There are 150 of these now in course of preparation, the sculptor being the young negress, Meta Vaux Warrick, of No. 206 South Twelfth street. The group has been contracted for by the United States Government for display in the Historical Building, and the work is to be completed and turned over to the Government by May 10. Failure to complete the last on time will involve heavy penalties on the young artist, and she is laboring many hours each day in her studio, at No. 210 South Camac street, to accomplish her task. The figures are divided into 15 groups, as follows: Twenty-five figures representing the landing at Jamestown in 1619; 10 figures, negroes, working in a cotton field; 4 figures, slaves escaping, pursued by owners; 8 figures, origin of African Methodist Episcopal Church; 9 figures, negro soldiers in camp; 5 figures protecting white women and children during the war; 5 figures, negroes, starting out in the world after emancipation; 15 figures, negro schoolhouse and children; 5 figures, negro farmer gathering his crops; 4 figures, negro bank and bankers; 15 figures, negro church; 6 figures, negro family at home; 1 figure, Paul Laurence Dunbar, negro poet, at work; 2 figures, Tanner, negro artist, painting from model; 4 figures, negro surgeon operating; 10 figures, Frederick Douglass negro orator, speaking; 18 figures, Wilberforce community, with students. Miss Warrick is a graduate of the Philadelphia schools, and spent five years in the School of Industrial Art on a scholarship which she won. There she took three prizes, and has since studied for three years in Paris under noted masters, exhibiting in the Salon and holding one private exhibition in that city and one in Philadelphia. Her work has attracted widespread attention and resulted in the award of the Government contract for the sculpture work for the exhibition. The figures are to be one-fourth life-size and the presentation will be aided by painted scenery now being prepared in the same studio.

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"Models to Show Development of the Negro," The Philadelphia Record, April 13, 1907

1907