North American_1907

Newspaper article folded into a rough square. The folded article is from the North American Philadelphia February 10, 1907. It has a list of several notable African Americans. List includes Meta, who has a profile picture in a rectangle diagonally above a sculpture pictured in a round frame "Secret Suffering One of Miss Warrick's Masterpieces". The article lists accomplishes and scholarships. Meta is listed alongside H. O. Tanner as sculptors from Philadelphia. Meta's article is as follows: "The art of Meta Warrick, like that of Tanner, has been a bold departure from conventional lines, but it is similar in no other respect. The famous French sculptor, Rodin has described her work as being, 'powerful'. She played with clay in her childhood; and her talent in drawing in the public schools so impressed her teachers that they introduced her to take an examination which won her a three years' scholarship at the School of Industrial Art. In 1899 she went to Paris. There the great connoisseur, M. Bing, introduced her to exhibit her work in his salon, that great critic best indicates Miss Warrick's position in the art world. He said :"To the true lover of art, every piece of her sculpture will tell a tale of woe, of sorrow, of fear, or of intense love or joy." 'The Thief on the Cross' and 'The Wretched' are considered her best works. She is at present modeling a bust of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro poet, and the national governement has invited her to submit ideas for a group depicting the advancement of the negro since he first landed in America. To Exhibit at Jamestown This will be one of the notable exhibits at the Jamestown (Virginia) Exposition next summer. Miss Warrick's studio is over a brick stable in a narrow Philadelphia street

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North American Philadelphia February 10, 1907.

1907