Water Boy
Item
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Artist
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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Title
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Water Boy
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Date
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before 1939
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Medium
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painted plaster
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Accrual Method
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"I met Augusta Savage during the New York World's Fair. I went down. She had a little exhibition hall where she exhibited her things. I went to see her exhibit and I wandered around while she entertained a couple who were visiting there. When they left I went and introduced myself. She fell on my neck. Clayton Carl's (sp?) father had induced me to write to Augusta Savage when she was a student and urge her on. Encourage her. I did that. I never got an answer. I don't know if she got the letter. She must have gotten the letter. At any rate she knew of me. I had sent two pieces. I love to interpret music in my sculpture. I had made two interpretations of the song "Water Boy" and I sent them to her. She asked me if she could keep one of them to exhibit and I told her she could. She never returned it. She was supposed to return it. So she must have that still." Dannett Transcript, p. 48
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Provenance
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Augusta Savage to Schomburg, 2004, as part of a gift from Savage's granddaughter Lorraine Lucas.
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Location
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
