Grandmother
Item
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Artist
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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Title
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Grandmother
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Date
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before 1921
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Dimensions
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7 1/2 x 7 x 5
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Description
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"Her piece titled A Grandmother, shows Margaret Jones seated in an overstuffed chair, an allusion to the joy Meta experienced when she was a little girl and her grandmother used to tell her stories." (Tiffany-LaTrice Michelle Williams, "More than God GivenTalent," MA Thesis, Sarah Lawrence College, 2014),
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Provenance
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Collection of The Meta Warrick Fuller Legacy, Inc.
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Credit
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"Negro Arts" August, 1921 135th Street Branch, NYPL (catalogue and NY Age article)
Williams cites Benjamin Brawley, “Meta Warrick,” The Negro in Literature and Art: in the United States (New York: Duffield & Company, 1918), 27; Dannett Transcript, Interview with Meta Warrick, 32.
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