Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

1914

Plaster, paint

14.9 x 12.5 x 1.1 in.

2006.153

Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 Studio (Dormer)

Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust Part of the Estate of Meta V. W. Fuller from 1968-2001. In the collection of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust, 2001-2006

Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912), a British composer and conductor, participated at the first Pan-African Conference held in London in 1900, where he met fellow Black leaders from the U.S. including poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Beginning in 1904, he toured the U.S. three times where Fuller saw him perform in Philadelphia. His most famous composition, The Song of Hiawatha consists of three parts, including Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898) based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellows' 1855 poem. Taylor died of tuberculosis two years before Fuller sculpted the relief. Coleridge-Taylor Memorial Concert, Jordan Hall, 1/13/13 address by WEB DuBois
See also image, Brownies' Book, Dec. 1921, p. 370, Image 394/762

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
1914
Plaster, paint
14.9 x 12.5 x 1.1 in.