Crusaders for Freedom Plaque
Item
Artist
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Title
Crusaders for Freedom Plaque
Date
1962
Medium
Plaster, mold release agent
Accession Number
2006.310
On View
Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 Studio (on floor)
Label
Commissioned for the William J. Walls Heritage Hall at Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, the Crusaders for Freedom depicts three notable members of Bishop Walls' historic abolitionist church, the Thomas Memorial AME Zion in Watertown, NY-- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883), Frederick Douglas (c. 1817-1895), Harriett Tubman (c. 1822-1913). Fuller received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) for her tondo relief, later cast in bronze.
Accrual Method
Collection was gifted to the Danforth in 2006. Unfortunately they sat uncatalogued for close to 10 years. It took until an IMLS grant awarded in 2015 through 2016 for this collection to be catalogued and put into the collections database. - Rachel 2021 Came to us from Pat West. Meta's friend Sue Thurman brought her a request from Livingstone College and connected Meta to Samuel Duncan who brought up the William J. Walls Heritage House - a new center for African Afro-American and International Studies. He asked for a relief and Meta drew Douglas, Tubman, Truth bust relief that she had done some time ago, but finished spring 1962 in 36” diameter. Called Crusaders of Freedom - got honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for her work. Was made into a bronze.
Provenance
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
Tombstone
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Crusaders of Freedom Plaque
1962
Plaster, mold release agent
Crusaders of Freedom Plaque
1962
Plaster, mold release agent