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• 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."
• Public Ledger Newspaper Article_1905
  Newspaper article with headline "Art and Artists" with pencil notation above "Public Ledger" and to the left side "Sun Jan 17" Article is as follows: "A significant group of statuettes, portrait busts and studies, as well as a number of examples of pottery, the work of the interesting young sculptor, Meta Vaux Warrick, was exhibited for the first time yesterday afternoon at the School of Industrial Art, at Broad and Pine streets, where it will remain on view for three weeks. It is only possible here to indicate briefly the importance of this small group of work, which is characterized by a breadth of conception and a vividness of imagination that make it particularly noteworthy. Except to the few who have been following the trend of modern artistic expression, the collection may prove generally disagreeable. There is not a "pretty" thing in the room, if we except some of the pottery, and as very few of the works shown are more than sketches, the exhibition will probably make but a small appeal to the general public. That Miss Warrick is a very close student of the human anatomy is at once apparent, and while her statues are not "finished", in the accepted sense of the term, one of them is lacking in its suggestion of a definite idea expressed. Crude and rough they may be, but each one (some more successful than others) is evidently the result of profound thought. They display a mentality far above the ordinary and all bear the imprint of the artist's unusual personality. As pure negro blood runs in Miss Warrick's veins, her achievement, viewed in the light of accepted standards, is the more remarkable. After having been graduated from the Art School here, she went to Paris in 1899, where she studied drawing for the first half year under Raphael Collin, the figure painter, and later modeling, under Carles. For a year she worked at the Academie Colarossi and attended lectures on anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Injalbert. Her work was approved by Rodin, whose influence it shows in a marked degree. There is nothing in the present exhibition which is not a concrete expression of thought or of some metaphysical truth which the suffering of the world has suggested to the mind of the sculptor. It is not an agreeable exhibition, but it is a very compelling one."
• Philadelphia Press Newspaper Article_1905
  Newspaper article in five sections across two pages of the scrapbook. In pencil above in cursive is written "Philadelphia Press" and beneath that between the first two sections of article is "1/15/05". The article is a detailed write up of her exhibiton at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Next to the last section of the article is a handwritten name "Elizabeth Dunbar" on a separate piece of paper - maybe the person who cut out and sent her the article? The overall article is long and a full transcription can be found on the server.
• Ossing New York Newspaper Article_1904
  Newspaper article in three sections. Header is separate and states "Ossining, N Y., Monday September 12, 1904." The article is in two sections and is as follows: "A Distinguished Visitor. The Sculptor, Miss Meta Wan Warrick, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in town visiting Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parker, and her friend, Mrs. J. W. Hoffman, Jr., of Durston Avenue. The following is one of the many articles written in reference to Miss Van Warrick's work both here and abroad: 'Several American women have won fame in the field of sculpture, and one of the most noted is the young mulatto girl, Miss Meta Van Warrick, whose work is creating much comment on both sides of the sea. Miss Warrick is the sculptor whose masterly expression of strange and original thoughts led the celebrated Rodin to give her special attention during the three years she spent studying in Paris. 'This young woman has known all the hardships and struggles of lonely student life in the great French City, and while she struggled wrought her emotions into her work, which is expressive of the despair which often overtook her. However, success was near. when she was scarely nineteen years of age she took one of her models to Rodin. He recognized the genius in her handiwork, and from that time on hse was his protege. 'One of the finest pieces of her work, "The Wretched," so attracted the attention of M. Bing, the great Art Connoissseur of Paris, that he had it cast in bronze. Art loving Paris was amazed at this example of the young girl's work, of which it has been said that, 'the orignal conception, the movement of palpitating life, the masterly grouping, would be remarkable for a mature man." 'Miss Warrick has a great field open to her, and every promise of being able to fill it to the satisfaction of her fellow artists. She won the first prize, $25.00 for a jardiniere in June, 1904, being also a student in Pottery. 'Miss Warrick is Philadelphia born and bred, and at the School of Industrial Art she received the education and encouragement necessary to send her to Paris to study, and, after her return home, the first public recognition of the Art World, for she is now on the Alumni Board of Control. 'In her studio, 210 South Camac Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Miss Warrick works from sunrise to sunset. Her studio is her world, and the figures her fingers have modeled into form are her companions. She has finished life-sized statues as well as busts, groups as well as single figures, and in every instance her work has been bold and free in outline. 'Two of her works "The Thief on the Cross" and "The Wretched" have been exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1903. 'This is a list of subjects nearly completed by Miss Warrick: "The Violist," "Mother and Child", "Portrait of the Sculptor", "The Sphinx." 'The following are subjects about to be worked up by the sculptor: "Prospective," "The Young Devil," "Studies of Colored Children," "Fire."
• Newspaper Article_1903
  Newspaper article with large image of a sculpture and a small article pasted besides. Image has the text beneath "'The Wretched' One of Miss Warrick's Weird Bits of Statuary (Women Sculptors Challenging Fame.) The article is as follows: "One could not think of using the old term 'sculptress' in speaking of Meta Vaux Warrick, the young Philadelphia mulatto girl whose work has reated a future both in this country and abroad. She is a Philadelphian born and bread, and at the School of Industrial Art she received the education and encouragement necessary to send her to Paris to study, and, after her return home, the first public recognition of the art world, for she is now on the School Board of Control. She has known all the harships of lonely young student life in the great French city, and much of her work was expressive of her despair. When she was scarely 19 she took one of her models to Rodin, and from that time on she was his special protege. One of the finest pieces of work, "The Wretched," M. Bing, the great French sculptor, had cast in bronze, and artistic Paris was amazed at the work - the originating life, the masterly grouping would be remarkable for a mature man."
• Philadelphia Inquirer_December 13, 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."
• Philadelphia? Newspaper Article_1903
  Newspaper article with blue pencil 'C' in the upper left corner and evidence of a circle once around the article. Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick is at her studio 338 South Quince Street, engaged in preparing some sketches for an exhibiton of her work, which will be held in the Fall at the School of Industrial Art under the auspices of the Alumni Association of the school. Miss Warrick is also engaged in coloring the frieze of arts and crafts for which she won the prize in 1899. This will also be placed on exhibition, with the rest of Miss Warrick's work."
• Philadelphia Inquirer_May 10, 1903
  Newspaper article with pencil notation beneath "News Tribune" Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick has moved her studio from 1432 South Penn Square to 338 South Quince street. Miss Warrick has been at work all winter on a number of small sketches in clay, which hear out the promise of her early work. This young sculptor has a genuine gift for catching and perpetuating in plastic form a passing phase of a subject, a mood, an expression. her imagination and originality are extraordinary and a little more carefulness of technique will put her work seriously above much of the modeling done in this country today."
• Detroit Michigan Newspaper Article_1903
  Newspaper article torn in half to fit onto the scrapbook page. Contains the title 'Arts and Crafts' overlaid on a tree with knotted roots. Beneath that is 'The Wretched/ Strange and Powerful Piece of Sculpture by a Philadelphia Mulatto Girl." On second piece is a headshot of Meta with text beneath 'Miss Meta Warrick, A Mulatto Who is Becoming Known as a Sculptor." Above the second piece of this article is written in pencil "Detroit Mich./ July 21-1903" Text is as follows: "Several American women are winning fame in the field of sculpture, and one of the most noted is the young Philadelphia mulatto girl, Miss Meta Vaux Warrick, whose work is creating much comment on both sides of the sea. Miss Warrick is the sculptor whose masterly expression of strange and original thought led the celebrated Rodin to give her special attention during the three years she spent studying in Paris. This young girl has known all the hardships and struggles of lonely student life in the great French City, and while also struggled wrought her emotions into her work, which is expressive of the despair which often overtook her. However success was near. When she was (this paragraph is crossed out with a blue pencil) scarely 19 years of age she took one of her models to Rodin. He recognized the genius in her handiwork, and from that time on she was his protege. One of the finest pieces of her work, 'The Wretched', a copy of which is shown on this page, so attacted the attention of M. Bing, the great French Sculptor, that he had it cast in bronze. Art-loving Paris was amazed at this example of the young girl's work, of whihc it has been said that 'the original conception, the movement of palpitating life, the masterly grouping, would be remarkable for a mature man.' Miss Warrick has a great field open to her, and every promise of being able to fill it ot the satifsaction of her fellow artists. She is Philadelphian born and bred, and at the School of Industrial Art she received the education and encouragement necessary to send her to Paris to study, and, after her return home, the first public recognition of the art world, for she is now on the school board of control."
• Philadelphia Inquirer_May 10, 1903
  Newspaper article with a large painting of Meta, leaning back on a couch with a hat in her lap. Under the image is the title "A Young Philadelphia Sculptor". In pencil next to this article is "Inquirer Sunday, May 10." A small attached article is as follows: "Miss Meta Vaux Warrick has moved her studio from 1432 South Penn Square to 338 South Quince Street. Miss Warrick has been at work all winter of a number of small sketches in clay, which bear out the promise of her early work. This young sculptor has a genuine gift from catching and perpetuating in plastic form a passing phase of a subject, a mood, an expression. Her imagination and origniality are extraordinary and a little more carefulness of technique will put her work seriously above much of the modelling done in this country to-day."
• Newspaper article_1902
  Small newspaper article with handwritten. In two parts with title cut out above small article. Article is as follows: "Negress Sculptor Wins Honors in Paris/ Meta Vaux Warrick, the talented young negress sculptor of Philadelphia, has received word from Paris that five of her small statues have been accepted for this year's Salon. Of these titles of three are "Mauvais Larron," (Bad Thief) "L'Homme qui a Faires" (The Dead Man?) and "Les Miserables." (The Wretched)
• Le Signal_1903
  Small newspaper article in French with handwritten note above 'Signal' and beneath 'Myra, 23 April' In French: "...les Malheureux, groupe en bronze de Mlle Méta Warrich [sic], une des plus belles choses que j'aie vues en ce genre depuis longtemps ; c'est d'une sauvage poésie, d'une intensité de misère et de faim qui vous font passer un frisson au coeur." In English: "...the Wretched, Miss Meta Warrick's bronze group, one of the most beautiful things I have seen like this in a long time; it is of a savage poetry, of an intensity of miscarriage and of hunger which see make pass a shiver in the heart."
• Le Figaro_1903
  Small newspaper article in French with handwritten note above 'The Figaro' Blue lines are down each side, drawn in after printing. In French: duc, Dampt (tres joli buste d'enfant). Puis les figurines dramatiques et mouvementees de M. Nocquet, artiste de beaucoup d'avenir; les envois divers de Mmes Meta-Warrick, Lafaurie; de MM. Hugo Kaufmann, Sorensen-Ringi, Mulot, Gosen, Giessendorff, Voulot, Froment-Meurice, Saint-Lerche, Leonard, etc," In English: duke, Dampt (very pretty bust of a child). Then the dramatic and eventful figurines of M. Nocquet, artist of many, of the future; various contributions from Mmes Meta-Warrick, Lafaurie; by MM. Hugo Kaufmann, Sorensen-Ringi, Mulot, Gosen, Giessendorff, Voulot, Froment-Meurice, Saint-Lerche, Leonard, etc,"
• North American_1902
  Long newspaper article with a separate headder "Philadelphia Woman is a Successful Playwright and Another a Maker of Weird Statuary" with pencil notation "The North American Sunday". The article about Meta is longwise and contains two pixel images of 'Secret Suffering (Sorrow) and "The Wretched". The article has another headder "Philadelphia Mulato Girl's Statuary Weird as Rodin's" The article is as follows: "There are women who model in clay and women who carve in marble. They sometimes produce things of beauty having lines of charm and delicacy, but in these examples of feminine art one misses that touch of power which characterizes the work of men. Let the things they do be cast in the most lasting bronze, they will yet look as soft as wax. One woman there is, indeed, who may claim exception from this mild indictment. She is Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor - one hesitates to use the term sculptress. Climb four flights of stairs in the quaint old-fashioned building, 1432 South Penn Square, rap on the door that bears her card, and it will be opened by a young mulatto woman of remarkably prepossessing appearance. She is the sculptor whose masterly epression of strange and original thought led Rodin - the celebrated, uniquel Rodin - to give her his special attention and a great deal of his valuable time during the three years of study she spent in Paris. Meta Warrick was born 23 years ago in South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, of hardworking, ambitious parents. Her mother is a hairdresser, her father was a barber. She does not know of anyone related to her who has taste or talent for art. When she went to the public schools, modeling clay was put into her hands and she found her element. Those people who in the educational movement stand up for the aesthetic principle, hoping to discover artistic talent in teh children of the people, must congratulate themseles on this young woman. It was worth while putting modeling tools into many inept fingers to discover a gift like hers. She won a scholarship in the School of Industrial Art and there carried off first prize for modeling. She is to-day on its board of control. Urgued by her instructors and aided by her self-sacrificing mother, she sailed for Paris to study the art to which she was born. There she drew under Collin, modeled the antique under Carles and had as instructors Ingalbert and Rollard. She studied the art galleries and throught long and hard, finding herself a stranger in a strange land in more ways than one. After six months of this she abandoned the paths of conventional study, took a studio and worked by herself, depending on an artist friend for criticism. Thus she labored, alone but not lonesome, so eager and earnest that she frequently forgot to eat the food she had purchased with her scanty allowance. Despair came to her after - the black despair of the artist possessed by talent too great to be set aside or destroyed. When she was scarcely nineteen she took to Rodin a small clay which caused him, who had seen and known so much, to gasp at its power and daring. It was the study of a man eating his heart. In some strange, obscure way which one shrinks at analyzing, she has drawn the heart from the breast of an agonized man and put it into his convulsed hands where he gnaws it. It symbolizes unceasing sorrow profoundly secret and silent. Under the great master she produced rapidly. After her study with Rodin, M. Bing, of the celebrated galleries of L'Art Nouveau, threw open his salon for an exhibition of her works, of which he sold a number. The well-known art critic, Edouard Gerard, wrote a glowing preface to the catalogue and stirred Paris with interest. M. Bing had "The Wretched" cast in bronze, and when the critics saw it they called it genius. It is the expression of wretchedness in all its phases: in resignation, in despair, in torpor, in rebellion, and in defiance. The original conception, the movement of palpitating life, the mature man. As it is the work of a young girl one ponders deeply for an explaination. The answer is found, perhaps, in the artist's mixed race. The white blood in Miss Warrick's veins cannot say "It is mine," for African speaks here. In the "Man Gnawing his Heart" her Ethiopian descent expressess itself, and in all her other works there is the voice of that people. In her graceful "Spirit Dancing" with its roughly modeled face, there is a visible and mad abandon of the Voodoo. "The Impenitent Thief," starting in its unsparing truth, shows the crucified man cursing God as he dies in the determined defiance of bondage. The most nearly feminine thing that this young woman has yet done is a little fancy six inch high called "Dispair." The face is hidden, but the writhing limbs closely interlaced tell its thought. Turn it any way you choose, glance at but a part of it, and still you perceive clearly that it is the despairing remorse of a woman's heart. In all her work there is the sadness of serpent-infested swamps, the mysteris of miasmatic forests, the sombre glow of evening skies relfected in lonely payous. Yet Miss Warrick has not a morbid personality. Canaries sing in her little studio and she has a feminine fondness for pretty clothes. The fingers that modeled the "Impenitent Thief" can trim a hat with Parisian 'smartness.'
• Philadelphia Inquirer_November 9, 1902
  Long newspaper article with handwritten above in pencil 'Sunday Inquirer/ Dec 19-1902(or 3). Article is as follows: "Miss Meta Warrick has taken a studio 1432 South Penn Square. She has just returned from three years' study in Paris where she worked alone in her own studio. Rodin criticised her work and no one can look at the pieces she has brought back without feeling how much she has been influenced by her great master. Perhaps the best is a fine head of John the Baptist, a type of vigorous and exalted youth. A portrait study of a young girl is very pleasant. But the main interest of her work is comprised in ten or twelve small casts - groups and single figures. These are truely Rodinesque through their intensity of thought expression. And what thoughts! One could more readily understand them in a strong man, but hardly in a young and happy girl. All violent or fantastic, they are too sugestive of a Maupassant, they show a morbidness, a lack of altruism from which one shrinks. Her "Oedipus" is an image of anquish, he has torn his eyes from their bleeding sockets and kneels, his face upturned as if with a terrible effort at sight. In another, "Death," a grizly horror leans on his staff and laughts while the wind blows his long cloak. "The Cloud" shows a fantastic group of figures. Those beneath are bent with sorrow and pain, they wring their arms and allow their streaming hair to hide the light of day, those above clasp their hands meekly or look upward with joyous countenances. They see the bright uses of the heavens whatever sorrow is under their feet. Her "Primitive Woman" is a cat-like creature, terribly near the brute, who crawls along with a strange questioning face. Rather more pleasant is one called "The Flame," an upward curling tounge of fire, which is all compact of sinuous creatures, some beautiful, some repulsive, what any dreamer might see in the fierce element. All her work has a value. Its very abandon makes it effective; with a more mature judgement and a stronger technique it would be powerful. All that she needs is technique to be the master of brute facts and make bone and muscle spring into life under her hands. That one acquired, it only means study, she might be anything she wished. The blood of the long enslaved negro runs in her veins and inspires her with weird conceptions and strange Heina-like contrasts. All the feelings of her race, the 'hants' and 'spirits' of the South, the bitter philosophy of the North may find splendid expression in her."
• Philadelphia Sunday Press_1902
  Large, folded article about Meta Warrick and her sculptures from the Philadelphia Sunday Press October 19, 1902. It is quite an impressive spread, with lots of text and images of her works. Images include one of her seated facing right and three works: 'John the Baptist', The Thief on the Cross', and one of her workong on a standing nude. Headline is as follows "The only Sculptress of her Race. Meta Vaux Warrick a Philadelphia colored girl wins fame and honor in the art schools of France. Foreign masters and critics declare that her works reveals a master of the Sculptor's Art that promises Great Results in the Future. she is a product of the Art Schools of This City." Full typed article will be found on the server. The article notes her amazing drawing tallents that won her a scholarship and goes into detail on her time in Paris, and about her setting up a studio in Philadelphia.
• Newspaper_1900
  Small newspaper add from an unknown newspaper. States "Only Sculptress of her race, Meta Warrick, a Philadelphia colored girl, wins fame and honor in the studios of France. Foreign critics declare that her work reveals a master skill."
• New York --ter Newspaper Article_1900
  Newspaper article with a photograph of a sculpture bust with the writing beneath "'Bust' - Miss Meta Vaux Warrick". Beside the article written in pencil is "New York __ter" Newspaper article is as follows: "Among Philadelphia artists of note at the exhibition is Miss Blanche Dillaye, who exhibits an attractive moonlight - a row of old houses with a lamplit window or two reflected in quiet water - and a twilight, entitled 'Nuit d'Ete.' The latter is the charming view of a vast field with gently sloping hills beyond a wooded hollow. Ther far horizon is defined against a luminous sky where fleecy clouds reflect the last rays of the sun. The sense of distance and the tranquillity of evening are very finely interpreted. Another Philadelphian, whose name is not yet so well known, is Miss Mary Smyth Perkins, a former student at the School of Design in Philadelphlia, and at present a pupil in Mr. Parker's studio. Miss Perkins exhibits three very creditable little views of the Luxembourg ; nice in tone and composition. Other Philadephians include: Mrs. Inez Addams, an apprentice of Whistler's; Mrs. E. Plaisted Abbott, whose plaster advertising the present exhibition is not the least attractive thing t obe seen there ; Miss Edith Bristol S. Stone, whose portrait of Miss K., whose Holland scene and those still-life all display a wide range of talent, and Miss Veta Vaux Warrick, who has the distinction of being the only sculptor represented."
• La Fronde_1902
  Elle a vingt ans à peine; et il y a déjà plus que des promesses dans ses ouvrages. Même ils étonnent par les plus rare qualités. Mlle Meta Warrick sait réfléchir, sait vouloir. Elle ne traduit pas n'importe quel aspect des choses, --mais, parmi les aspects les plus caractéristiques, choisit le plus caractéristique. Cette recherche exige une extrême acuité d'observation, et, dans l'esprit, la faculté tout intellectuelle de saisir en chaque objet les principes qui formeront synthèse. Il faut aussi de la hardiesse, oser s'exprimer librement, et ne pas faire de concessions aux manières convenues de voir et de sentir. Sur la jeune artiste ne pêse aucun dogme d'Ecole. Elle médite, elle rêve, elle travaille sans que la tyrannie des formules l'intimide. De plus, on doit estimer les statues, statuettes, groupes exposé ici pour l'équilibre, les heureuses combinaisons de lignes, le mouvement. Le movement surtout, la vie nerveuse, inquiète, tourmentée. L'imagination de Mlle Warrick est, en effet, tournée vers les effrois, les fièvres, les souffrances. Elle a dédié aux Malheureux un groupe des plus dramatiques, d'une belle vigueur de conception, d'une ordonnance plastique tout à fait louable. De la même compassion sans mièvrerie est né l'Homme qui a faim, le misérable qui n'a plus que son coeur à manger, et qui le ronge avec les grimaces, les contorsions du désespoir. Désespoir sans grossièreté, sans prosaïsme même, qui est realisée sculpturalement--la peine affreuse décrite, se figure-t-on, par quelque conte, quelque ballade, quelque légende... Même impression est donnée par le Mauvais larron, morceau considérable, qu'il faut espérer voir l'an prochain au Grand Palais. Et je veux citer encore des figurines comme l'homme qui rit, l'Homme à l'épine, Falstaff, la Mort dans le vent, si bizarrement souples, des groupes mouvants, turbulents, énergiques comme les Lutteurs, Feux follets, les Satyres. Mlle Warrick est une Américaine de Philadelphie. Elle travaille là-bas selon le système d'un professeur allemand, -- système propice au développement de l'imagination, de la volonté, de la franchise dans l'expression. Trente, quarante, cinquante exquisses différentes étaient demandées sur le même sujet à la toute jeune élève. C'était l'habituer à ne pas s'en remettre aux premieres impulusions de son instinct d'artiste, à les raisonner, à s'interroger profondément; c'était rendre sa vision pénétrante. Depuis trois ans qu'elle est en France Mlle Warrick a continué, dans la discipline du travail, à prendre posession d'elle-même. La Fronde 26 Juin" In English: "Sculpture / Miss Meta Warrick / She is barely twenty; and there is already more than promises in his works. Even they amaze with the rarest qualities. Miss Meta Warrick knows how to think, knows how to want. She does not translate just any aspect of things - but, among the most characteristic aspects, chooses the most characteristic. This research requires an extreme acuity of observation, and, in the mind, the entirely intellectual faculty of grasping in each object the principles which will form a synthesis. It is also necessary to be bold, to dare to express oneself freely, and not to make concessions to the agreed manners of seeing and of knowing. No school dogma weighs on the young artist. She meditates, she dreams, she works without the tyranny of formulas intimidating her. In addition, we must estimate the statues, statuettes, groups exhibited here for the balance, the happy combinations of lines, the movement. Above all, movement, nervous, restless, tormented life. Ms. Warrick's imagination is, in fact, turned towards fear, fever, suffering. She dedicated to The Wretched, a group of the most dramatic, of a beautiful vigor of conception, of a quite laudable plastic order. From the same compassion without meekness is born the Man who is lazy (Lazy Bones), the miserable one who has only his heart to manage, and who gnaws at it with grimaces, the contortions of despair. Despair, without rudeness, without even prosaism, which is carried out sculpturally - the awful pain described, one imagines, by some tale, some ballad, some legend ... The same impression is given by the Bad Thief (Thief on the Cross), piece considerable, which we can hope to see next year at the Grand Palais. And I still want to cite figurines like the Laughing Man, the Man with a Thorn, Falstaff, Death in the Wind, so strangely supple, moving, turbulent, energetic groups like Wrestlers, Wisps, Satyrs. Miss Warrick is an American from Philadelphia. She works there according to the system of a German professor, - a system conducive to the development of imagination, will, frankness in expression. Thirty, forty, fifty different sketches were requested on the same subject from the very young pupil. It was to get her used to not relying on the first impulses of her artistic instinct, to reason with them, to question herself deeply; it was to make her vision penetrating. For three years that she has been in France Miss Warrick has continued, in the field of work, to take possession of herself. The Fronde June 26 "
• Philadelphia Inquirer_ August 24, 1902
  Newspaper article from 'The Philadelphia Inquirer's Summer Magazine' with written in pencil next to it 'Sum Aug 24, 1902'. The article is as follows: "A young Philadelphia art student, a mulatto, Miss Meta Warrick, has been creating something of a sensation in Paris, by an exhibition of small plaster figures displayed some weeks ago at L'Art Nouveau galleries. Miss Warrick was for several seasons a student at the School of Industrial Art in this city. There she showed an aptitude for modeling wiht a decorative tendencey. Two years ago she went to Paris to study, and since then she has developed rapidly. Though quite young - barely twenty - she has a decided talent and works with much force and originality. She is a follower of the great Rodin, and, therefore, an impressionist in clay. French critics are inclined to predict a brilliant future for her.
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle_August 10, 1902
  Newspaper article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of New York dated Sunday August 10, 1902. Contains a long article about Meta as well as a drawing of her, full bodied, leaning back on a couch wearing a stripped dress and holding a hat. The article is as follows: "Miss Meta Warrick/ An American Colored Woman Who Gives Promise as a Sculptor./ Those of you who are interested in American art, must remember the name of Meta Warrick. Meta Warrick is a colored American girl, and a sculptor. She came here two years ago. She had hardly enough money to travel and keep herself in half-starved way, for a year, then her mother managed to keep her another year. What she has accomplished is marvelous; marvelous because she found a way to accomplish it, and marvelous her art will be. I have very little faith in a woman sculptor. They will succeed in making a bust of a pretty woman or a statuette, which, even in marble, will look as soft as putty. But Miss Warrick cannot be classed in that category of woman sculptors. When she went to Rodin with a piece of her work, he said: 'But, mademoiselle, you are a sculptor. Your work is powerful.' I think Miss Warrick, will prove, if she works long enough, to have not only talent, but genius. There is already the sign of it in the works she exhibited at Bings. To critics and amateurs they were a revolution. Now, people who are fond of sweet little sculptured angels, academical art in general, will at once class Miss Warrick's work as vulgar, gross, painful and pay no more attention to it. Every piece of her sculpture, in fact, tells a tale of woe of sorrow, of fear, or of intense love or joy. For instance, her almost life-sized thief on the cross is almost frightful to behold. It is the realistic face of the thief in the throes of death, with protruding lips, that become blanched with blasphemies as well as death. Every line of the body shows anatomical study and that the girl did not hesitate to produce the lines as her vision of the thief revealed them to her. In her studio she has a small plaster relief which was inspired by the lines: be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining' The relief is a cloud peopled with the suffering, the sorrowful and the desparing, then around the edge, those who can see the light behind the cloud take courage, and the smile of hope on their faces is intense. Think of the powerful imagination of that woman. Her grandfather, while she sat on his lap, as a little child, fed her mind with ghost stories; she saw much suffering around her: she afterward learned Edgar Alan Poe's weird tales by hear. All this she materailzed in plaster and some of her works, I must repeat, are marvelous. She herself is not at all morbid in disposition. She talks well, has a certain education. She is so much wrapped in her work that she said to me, 'I might stay well with my mother in Philadelphia and be well clothed, have a good table, and a better roof than the rickety one of a studio over my head, but no privation can keep me from my work.'"
• Le Petit Bleu de Paris_1902
  Newspaper article in French on blue paper. Cut into three different sections. In French: "Le Petit Bleu De Paris - /Dimamche 22 Juin 1902/ L'exposition de sculptures de Mlle Meta Warrick a L'art Nouveau Bing/ Mlle Meta Warrick est une artiste americaine. Elle releveralt de Rodin et de Rosso par le mouvement qu'elle cherche a donner a sa sculpture. Cette sculpture est plus que vigoureusc, elle est violente. Les danseuses de Mlle Warrick ont des dehanchements excessifs et des faces presque masculines. Quand Mlle Warrick est ealme et modele tranquillement un buste, ce buste a de la vie et de l'interet. C;est un talent a qui un brin d'assagissemeat ne miessierait pas." In English: "Le Petit Bleu De Paris - / Sunday June 22, 1902 / Miss Meta Warrick's sculpture exhibition at L'art Nouveau Bing / Miss Meta Warrick is an American artist. She is similar to Rodin and Rosso through the movement that she seeks to give to her sculpture. This sculpture is more than vigorous, it is violent. Miss Warrick's 'dancers' have excessive swaying and almost masculine faces. When Miss Warrick is quietly modeling a bust, that bust has life and interest. It is a talent that a bit of sobering up(?) would not try.
• Philadelphia Sunday Press_July 20, 1902
  Newspaper article with a reprinted drawing image of Meta. The image is her from the side, but facing slightly backwards to the left. She has a flat hat and a bow in her hair, which is tied into a bun at her neckline. Underneath the image is printed 'Miss Meta Warrick/ A young Philadelphia sculptor.' Above this article in pen is written 'Sunday Press July 20 - 1902' The article, cut out seperately, but pasted overlapping the drawing is as follows: 'Miss Meta Warrick, whose portrait from an etching by Duvre appears above, returns to this city from a stay of several years in Paris toward the end of this month. After a visit to Atlandic City, Miss Warrick will open a studio in this city. She had already made her mark among the youngest art students of the city before she left it. A most promising sketch by her, made in 1898, while a student at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, is still on exhibition at the school as worthy permanent attention. In Paris Miss Warrick has studied at the Julian Academy and elsewhere. She has twice had a special exhibition of her work, the last of some twenty-two members, exhibited in June at "L'Art Nouveau, Bing." on the Rue de Provence. "In her work," writes the critic, Mr. Edouard Gerard, "there is much promise because there is in them the most precious qualities that one can find in a young artist - sense of form, originality of view, an easy daring and force of expression." Miss Warrick has sought, as he points out, in her work movement, vigor and a sense of extreme action. "Mlle. Warrick," says Mr. Gerard, "does not feel with the French poet. I hate the movement which displaced the line and believed instead that the line is the chief gift movement has to creat. In her art she constantly seeks it. Nothing seems alien to this young genious which conceives and executes with a singular force."
• Boston Sunday Journal_August 17, 1902
  Newspaper article from the Boston Sunday Journal dated August 17, 1902. "American Colored Girl Startles Paris By Her Art. Paris, Aug. 16 - Americans in Paris are much interested in the work of Meta Warrick, a colored American girl, and a sculptor. She had hardly enough money to travel and keep herself in a half-starved way, for a year, then her mother managed to keep her antoher year. What she has accomplished is marvelous: marvelous because she found a way to accomplish it, and marvelous her art will be. When she went to Rodin with a piece of her work, he said 'But madamoiselle, you are a sculptor, your work is powerful. Miss Warrick will prove, if she works long enough, to have not only talent, but genious. There is already signs of it in the work she exhibited at Bings. To critics and amateurs they were a revelation. Every piece of her sculpture, in fact, tells a tale of woe, of sorrow, of fear, or of intense love or joy. For instance, her almost life-sized Theif on the Cross is almost freightful to behold. It is the realistic face of the theif in the throes of death, with protruding lips, that becomes blanched with blasphemies as well as death. Every line of the body shows anatomical study and that the girl did not hesitate to produce the lines as her vision of the theif revealed them ot her. In her studio she has a small plaster relief which was inspired by these lines: Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining The releif is a cloud peopled, with the suffering, the sorrowful and the desparing, then around the edge those who can see the light behind the cloud take courage, and the smile of hope on their faces is intense. Her grandfather, while she sat on his lap as a little child fed her mind with ghost stories; she saw much suffering around her; she afterward neared Edgar Allan Poe's weird tales by heart. All this she materializes in plaster and some of her works are marvelous. She herself is not at all morbid in disposition. She talks well, has a certain education. She is so much wrapped in her work that she said: "I might stay with my mother in Philadelphia and be well clothed, have a good table and a better roof than the rickety one of a studio over my head; but no privation can keep me from my work."
• Atlantic City paper_July 21, 1902
  Newspaper article in English from the Atlantic City, New Jersey published Monday July 21, 1902. "Miss Warrick Returns - Daughter of a Resident Here is an Artist of Renown. Miss Meta Warrick, daughter of Mrs. Emma Warrick, of 1002 Atlantic avenue, this city, who went to Paris about four years ago, to complete her education as an artist, arrived in New York Saturday evening on the steamer Umbria. After visiting her mother here for a time, Miss Warrick will open a studio in Philadelphia. She has already made her mark among the younger art students of the city before she left it. A most promising sketch by her made in 1898 while a student at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, is still on exhibition at the school as worthy permanent attention. In Paris, Miss Warrick has studied at the Julian Academy and elsewhere. She has twice had a special exhibition of her work, the last of some twenty-two members, exhibitied in June, at "L'Art Noveau, Bing," on the Rue de Provence. "In her work," writes the critic, Mr. Edouard Gerard, "there is much promise because there is in them the most precious qualificaties that one can find in a young artist - sense of form, originality of view, an easy daring and force of expression." Arrived Saturday, July 19, 1902 .