DGHM 110 S25 DTA Project

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• Sylvia
• Scrapbook
• Monument to President William McKinley
• The Afro-American_June 2, 1928
  Article has a cut out photograph of Meta, facing right and looking diagonally up to the right, with her hair pulled back. Article title is 'We Wont' Tell'. The article is as follows: "Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick-Fuller, noted sculptor, will celebrate her birthday next Saturday. We won't tell which one: that isn't important. Her work as a painter and sculptor is well known in the country and abroad. Mrs. Fuller was born in Philadelphia and educated in the Industrial Art School, the Academie Collins and Academie Colarossi, Paris, France, and later in the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. She married Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, and there are two children, Solomon Carter, Jr., and William Thomas. She exhibited work in the Paris Salon, Jamestown Exposition, Academy of Fine Arts and at private exhibits in Paris. Her home is in S. Framingham, Mass."
• Framingham? Newspaper Article_1924
  Short newspaper article, undated and unnamed. Title of the article is "Art Dept. Is to Conduct Meeting of Club Tuesday". There is a pencil arrow at the bottom right of this article that points to the letter (Eph1.41.153) below it. The article is as follows: "The meeting of the Women's Club next Tuesday will be in charge of the art department. Mrs. James Glass, chairman. The program will be given by Mrs. Rita Garrick Fuller, who will talk on "Student Days in Paris." Mrs. Fuller's work is well known in art circles and the afternoon is looked forward to with interest by club members. She will illustrate her talk with examples of her own work in sculpture and with pictures thrown on the screen of some distinctive types of sculpture and also of scenes and views in those parts of Paris more familiar to students than to tourists. Mrs. Fuller has spoken in other places on her subject, and is enthusiastic in her work and a thorough student of art in its highest sense. The afternoon promises to be one of the most profitable as well as enjoyable of the season. Tea will be served in charge of Mrs. Clarence Hall."
• Framingham Evening News_June 17 1919
  Newspaper article in three section. Headline is pasted along the top and states: "The Evening News, Framingham, Mass. Tuesday, June 17, 1919." Title for the article is "Models Panel/ for Y.M.C.A. Bldg./ At Atlanta, GA." Article is in two sections and is as follows: "Mrs. S. C. Fuller is completing, in her studio on Warren road, the modeling of a panel which is to be placed above a fire place in the new (colored) Y. M. C. A. building at Atlanta, Ga. The panel which is about five feet square is designed and executed with the spiritual conception and vivid life that characterizes all Mrs. Fuller's work. When finished it will be cast in plaster and after it is put in place will be bronzed. Interwoven in the design is the symbolic oak of Atlanta, and the motto of the association, "Spirit, mind, body." The central figure of the panel is a crouching Negro youth, about to rise. Over his shoulder appears a winged spirit, whispiring encouragement in his ear and urging him towards the light, the sun, to which it points. the face of the youth expressess slowly awakening aspiration, struggling with the dullness of long oppression. Chubby figures of little children surround the central figures, against with leaves and clusters of acorns, child figures represent the generations of the future, the hope of the race and are wonderfully individual, showing all shades of expression, "from grave to gay" and all sorts of poses. The words "Spirit, mind, body" are inconspicuously introduced, separately on small shield-like surfaces, in among the child figures. The thought is clearly worked out, the lines and modeling true and spirited and will convey, when finished and in place, the real inspiration that the artist intended. Mrs. Fuller always works with some difinite thought to be expressed and her descriptions are very illuminating to the unartistic observer. [end first section.] [start second section.] In her studio is noticable a life size plaster group which was exhibited in New York several years ago, illustrating emancipation. A slave youth and maiden, standing, under an over shadowing something representative of their servitude, have just been set free, from slavery. Behind them Humanity personified is urging them on, while Race-hatred holds them back. Bewildered they stand, looking to the future, but with nothing in their hands to help them, and with only the scantist clothing. Humanity, while urging them forward, weeps for their discouraging state. This group attracted a good deal of attention when exhibited. Mrs. Fuller, who was a pupil of Rodin in Paris, while a student, first attracted the notice of the great sculptor by the spiritual depth of conception and the intensity of life expressed in her work. A visit to her home and studio is an experience to be remembered with pleasure."
• Framingham News _December 20, 1918
  Newspaper article in 4 parts from "Framingham, Mass. Friday, December 20, 1918" The title of the article is "By Sudden End of War/ Suggests Piece of Sculpture by Mrs. S. C. Fuller/ Noble Figure of Peace/ Springs From Out Clouded Battlefields in France". The article is as follows: Mrs. S. C. Fuller, Warren road, is at work upon a piece of sculpture, [start second section] the idea of which was suggested to her mind by the sudden ending of the war. The details are not all worked out yet, but the vivid representation of life that characterizes all of Mrs. Fuller's work is brought out in a manner that makes the observer share in the artist's inspiration. From the battle field strewn with dead and dying, with broken cannon and debris of the fight, rises a cloud, out of which springs a nobel figure of Peace. The right hand holds aloft a large banner, in the left is the olive branch. The face, strong and spiritual at the same time, shows the suffering, agony and suspense of the exultation of the final triumph, and a clear, long look into the future. Mrs. Fuller's thought was to show Peace, coming as it did, suddenly, out of a cloud, as it were, when we had expected to endure some years more of war. In the dim confusion of the battle field below, here and there a wounded man raises himself to look up and stretch a feeble hand towards the glorious figure, whose free lines, flowing drapery, its abounding life and the lofty conception of the whole, show in a striking manner the genious of the artist whose work [start third section] By Sudden End of War/Continued from Page One is too little known in Framingham. An earlier piece, done by Mrs. Fuller at the beginning of the war and on a similar theme, was on exhibition at the rooms of the Woman's Peace Party in Boston, some time ago, and was described in The News."
• Boston Guardian_1917
  Newspaper article titled "2nd Sculpture Prize Won By Mrs. S. C. Fuller." In pencil vertically along the left side is written "Boston Guardian". The article is as follows: "Mass. Branch of Woman's Peace Party Awards $25 Prize to Former Philadelphia, Zeta Karrick Fuller. Mrs. Malcolm Forbes Elected President. The Boston Post of 24th instant reports: - Miss Rose A. Garrity of 77 Gainsboro street, a pupil of Roger Burnham, the sculptor, was yesterday awarded the sculpture prize of $50 offered by the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace Party for the best sketch conception of the constructive peace movement. The subject of her composition for the peace prize was "Peace Rests Upon International Law. Which is Built and Upheld by the People." The second sculpture prize of $25 was awarded to Mrs. Meta Z. [sic] W. Fuller of Framingham. The title of her sketch was "Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War." Mrs. Fuller has studied sculpture in Philadelphia and Paris and is said to have done very meritorious work. The art committee of the Woman's Peace Party believes that later it may be arranged to have these two sketches worked on a large scale into bronze or stone and also to be the inspiring ideas in others of the fine arts. Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes was elected president and Mrs. John Richardson, Jr., treasurer."
• Framingham Evening News_September 9, 1915
  Newspaper article in one column. The newspaper title is cut out and glued vertically next to the article stating "Framingham, Mass. Tuesday, September 28, 1915". The headline for the article is "Framingham Fair Notes/ Glimpses About Suffrage and "Anti" Booths/ Other Exhibits/ Flowers, Vegetables and Poultry By Children" Article is as follows: "Mrs. Solomon C. Fuller of Framingham whose work is sculpture is favorably known in art circles, has designed a medallion for the Framingham Equal Suffrage league, a plaster cast of which was on exhibition at the Suffrage booth at the Framingham fair. The design shows three heads in profile, in low relief, a man, a woman and, between and below them, a child. The thought accompanying is in letters at one side of the placque which is about eight inches in diameter, "Each unto each the rounded complement." The design of the three heads shows delicacy as well as strength of character, the ideal family, with perfect serenity and unity of interests in the home. It is a beautiful piece of work and was much admired by those who saw it. Some very artisitc posters from the state headquarters were exhibited on the wall at the back of the booth and a large map of the United States, showing the suffrage and the campaign states was suspended from the upper window. Sanitary drinking cups with a suffrage rhyme on them were a novelty and "Votes for Women" postal cards of various designs. The booth was presided over by Mrs. Manfred Bowditch, Miss Kingman, Mrs. M. E. Thayer, Mrs. and Miss Irving, Mrs. A. P. Sherman and others."
• Framingham Evening News_Sept 9, 1915
  Newspaper article in one column. Cut out and glued next to it vertically is the newspaper name "The Evening News, Framingham, Mass. Thursday, September 9, 1915". The title of the article is "Medallion is Donated to League". The article is as follows: "The Framingham Equal Suffrage league is proud to number among its members, Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick-Fuller, the sculptor. Mrs. Fuller has designed a beautiful medallion and donated it to the league. It is her contribution to the suffrage campaign fund. On it are 3 heads in profile - a man, a woman and a child - with the motto from an old poem: "Each unto each the rounded complement." It beautifully typifies the message of equal suffrage without having any of the limiations of propaganda. It will be a thing of beauty and a message of truth long after the vote is won throughout the country. The medallion is of plaster, finished in ivory or white, measuring 8 1/2 inches in diameter. Mrs. Fuller has only recently recommenced her work, which was dropped necessarily for a few years after her marriage and the birth of her little sons. She is especially interested in symbolic compositions and has also made a number of portrait busts and reliefs. Her most important recent production is the heroic group entitled "Emancipation," made in 1913 for the Exposition in New York city to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Negro Freedom. Before her marriage Mrs. Fuller was a student in Philadelphia and Paris and later worked in her own studios in both cities. She has exhibited in Paris Salon, the Exposition of Woman Painters and Sculptors, Paris, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts."
• Framingham Evening News_May 18, 1914
  Long newspaper article in three parts. Newspaper is The Evening News Framingham from Monday May 18, 1914. Title for the article is "An Exhibition of Sculpture/ Work of Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick-Fuller/ Viewed by Friends/ True Stamp of Genius is in Evidence" Article is as follows: "At the home of Dr. S. C. Fuller, Warren road, yesterday afternoon a number of friends gathered to view an exhibition of sculpture by Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick-Fuller whose work is soming to be recognized in artistic circles as bearing the true stamp of genius. Mrs. Fuller is very modest about her work but she is full of enthusiasm and the 'divine fire,' and not the lease pleasing part of the occasion was the privilege of meeting the artist herself. The long, living room was given up to the exhibition and the piece that first attracted by the eye on entering was the second model of the group made for the New York State Emancipation Proclamation Commission in 1913, and exhibited at the exposition last October. The model is about 24 inches high, the finished group which was exhibited is 8 feet high. It represents a newly emacipated man and maiden standing in the shelter of a gnarled, decapitated tree that has the semblacne of a human hand stretched above them. This semblance of a had represents humanity which is pushing them out into the untried world and at the same time prevent[end first section] -ing them from a full exercise of their new found freedom. In the attitudes of the two figures who start out empty handed to try the new life is strikingly expressed the state of mind, which must be theirs, eagerness, uncertainty, timidity and courage, trying to realize all that freedom means and hesitating before taking the plunge. On either end of the chimney piece are masks, full size, of the two figures in the group, showing them rather larger than life-sized. On a pedistal also in the centre of the room is a small bronze group illustrating the rhythm and movement of the 'Danse Macabre.' Action, motion, life are vividly portrayed in Mrs. Fuller's work. In many small figures in the collection this is wonderfully depicted. In the little figure, 'A Young Equestrian,' a child on a rocking horse; in the 'Classic Dancer,' 'A Drink, Please,' 'Mother and Baby' where, the bed time frolic is illustrated, all show intense life and action. 'John' a study, sometimes called 'John the Baptist' is full of expression, the asceticosm, ferver and self denial of the 'one crying, in the wilderness' are all in the striking face. Another head, equally remarkable is 'The Jester,' a portrait and remarkable for its truthful ugliness. A number of relief portraits are shown, noticeably two of Dr. A. E. P. Rockwell of Worcester, and several of the children. A bust of the eldest child and one of Dr. Fuller are wonderfully lifelike. Four figures illustrating the four seasons were made for the over mantel panel. It is not possible to do justice to the twenty-nine numbers in the collection which make an exhibition of unusual veriety and scope, arranged about and on the walls of the room. Mrs. Fuller began her artistic studies in the School of Industrial Art in her home city of Philadelphia where she studied four years and won a scholarship. On the advice of the teachers there she went to Paris where she studied three years. Just previous to her marriage to Dr. Fuller she had the misfortune to lose by a fire nearly all her accum [end of section 2] -ulated work, the head of this collection, 'The Jester', being almost the only thing that escaped. Mrs. Fuller has a studio in the top of the house at Warren road, but as she says, she 'works all over the house.' The friends who viewed the exhibition yesterday came, many of them from a distance, Boston, Worcester and placed between, who could more conveniently come on Sunday. Mrs. Fuller will receive friends in town who are interested in her work on Wednesday and Friday this week."
• Phil? Newspaper Article Headshot_1907
  Two clippings from a newspaper with a photo of Meta in profile and a small text beneath 'Miss Meta Vaux Warrick'. Clipped from the same article is 'Miss Meta Warrick, 'Philadelphia's busiest little woman' is having many nice things said about her by the press throughout the country. Miss Warrick is a young sculptor who has made an international reputation.'
• Exhibition List and American Art News_1905
  Typed list of works, number and divided into types. A few on the second page have checkmarks in pencil by the works. At the end glued to the last page of the list is an article from the "American Art News, New York, February 4th, 1905". Article is as follows: "At the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art there is an interesting exhibition of sclupture[sic.], portrait busts and figurines, the work of Meta Vaux Warrick, a young colored woman with a strain of white blood. The work is extremely individual, showing a morbid, strong imagination and the influence of Rodin, who has taken great interest in her progress. The exhibition will continue for another week." List is as follows: "Catalogue. 1. Portrait of the late William Still 2. Head - John the Baptist 3. Peeping Tom 4. Sylvia 5. Portrait study from mirrors. 6. Portrait from Memory of the late William Thomas Sketches 7. The Man Eating his Heart 8. Falstaff 9. Study of Expression 10. Oriental Dancer 11. Wrestlers 12. Death in the Wind 13. Despair 14. The Man with a Thorn 15. The Man who Laughed. 16. The Two-step 17. Brittany Vendeuse 18. Silenus 19. OEdipus 20. McKinley Monument 21. Primitive Woman 22. Wild Fire (Start of page 2) Studies of Afro-American Types 23. An Old Woman 24. A School-boy 25. The Comedian 26. Danny Deever (The Student) 27. The Artist 28. Mulatto Child. Fragments 29. Cyclops 30. " 31. Dancing Woman 32. Study of Pose. 33. The Bear-trap 34. Primitive Man 35. Medusa 36. The Cloud 37. The British Lion 38. Procession of Arts & Crafts (Start of Page 3) Photographs 1. John 2. Man Eating his Heart 3. Silenus 4. OEdipus 5. The Street Dancer 6. Study of a Man 7. Primitive Woman 8. Impenitant Thief 9. Three Gray Women 10. Man Carrying a Dead Body."
• American Art News_January 21, 1905
  Article with headline "American Art News" and the text "The sculptural work of Meta Vaux Watn [sic] will continue on view at the School of Industrial Art, Broad and Fine Streets, Philadelphia, until Feb. 4 every day except Sunday from noon until 5 o'clock." Below this is "New York, January 21st, 1905."
• Newspaper Article_1903
  Newspaper article in two sections. Title is 'Craftsmen's Work in Four Exhibits/ School of Industrial Art Has Largest Collection on View at the Handicrafters Have Smallest, But in Point of Excellence the Best - News of the Studio'. Article goes into several exhibitions around Philadelphia. Meta is mentioned at the very end: "...The few pieces of sculpture in the exhibition are quite noticeably above the average of work usually seen at schools. The exhibitors are Miss Meta Vaux Warrick and Mr. Salvador Belotti, both of whom are showing portrait busts. Miss Warrick exhibits also some of her small figure compositions, which express with much dramatic force certain abstract ideas."
• Self Portrait
• Etude, male
• Oeuvres de Mlle Meta Warrick
  catalogue
• Exposition Card
• Exposition inaugurale organisée par P. Mañach à la Galerie B. Weill, du 2 au 31 décembre 1901
• Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts Exhibition
• Meta Warrick in her Philadelphia Studio
• Philadelphia Studio
• Exposition de Sculptures de Mlle Meta Warrick
• "Philadelphia Mulatto Girl's Statuary Weird as Rodin's"
  The North American Sunday