Inspiration (Spirit, Mind, Body)

Item

Artist
Meta Vaux Warrrick Fuller
Title
Inspiration (Spirit, Mind, Body)
Date
1919
Description
in Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950), Negro Poets and their Poems. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923
Provenance
YMCA, Atlanta, GA
Credit
Detail from the YMCA lobby frieze, "Paul" by Ms. Fuller of Boston. Atlanta, Georgia June 1920
Photographs of YMCA buildings, people, and activities held in the collections of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll261:619?q=meta+fuller

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Inspiration, by Meta Warrick Fuller." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1923. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-1eba-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

"Meta Warrick Fuller, the Negro sculptress of Massachusetts, has completed a panel for the new colored Y.M.C.A. in Atlanta, Ga. The panel represents a colored youth, rising from a crouching position in response to the urge of a spirit pointing to the light, the rising sun." "Music and Art," Crisis 19, no 1, (November 1919), 350.
Location
YMCA, 22 Butler Street, Atlanta, GA