DGHM 110 S25 DTA Project

Items

• Props
• Set design, possibly Skidding
  Broadway play, May 21, 1928-July, 1929 A play in three acts, The living room of Judge Hardy in a certain town in Idaho https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/skidding-9802
• Watching for Dawn
• Framingham Map
• Maud Cuney Hare (The Pianist)
  "Fuller directed Maud Cuney Hare’s four-act poetic drama “Antar of Araby” at Boston’s Fine Arts Theatre on December 14, 1925." https://baystatebanner.com/2022/02/10/meta-warrick-fuller-noted-early-20th-century-black-sculptor-and-painter/
• Water Boy
• 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."
• New York Evening Post_1922
  Newspaper article from the "New York Evening Post February 4, 1922" with a large photograph of Ethiopia Awakening and a small typed section "At right - "Ethiopia," by Meta Warrick Fuller, a negro pupil of Rodin: presented to the New York Public Library by the Negro section of "America's Making."
• Hartford Daily Courant_1932
  Newspaper article from a Daily Courant (part of name is missing) from February 14 (16), 1932. The title of the article is "Appear in Negro Achievement Week Program" and has three photographs beneath. Meta is mentioned at the end of the article "During the week, there will be an exhibition of paintings and sculture of Negro artists. About 25 paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring, a former Hartford girl, will be on view as well as the sculpture by Meta Warrick Fuller."
• St. Louis_1920
  Newspaper clippings from St. Louis with the title "Negro Sculptor, Catholic, Has Had Meteoric Career". Article is mostly about Barthe. Meta is mentioned on the second clipping which is roughly circled in black ink: "Earlier American Negro sculptors have included Edmonia Lewis, who built up her reputation in the years after the Civil War. Most of her work was done in Italy, as was that of Eugene Warbourg, her contemporary, Miss Lewis' outstanding successor was Meta Vaux Warrick, born at Philadelphia in 1877. Miss Warwick made an international reputation..."
• Newspaper Article on Georgia's New YMCA_1920
  Newspaper article in two columns from an unknown newspaper, dated Sunday, May 16, 1920. Article is on two pages, with the second page including a photograph of the building. The article goes into details about fundraising and different areas of the building, like a mess hall, pool, and lounge. The article begins as follows: "Building for Colored Y.M.C.A to be Formally Opened Today The first of a series of exercises to be held in connection with the opening for use of the new Young Men's Christian Association building for colored men, at 146 Butler street, will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the new gymnasium. Addresses will be made at the formal opening by Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute, and by Dr. J. E. Mooreland, senior international secretary of the colored department of the Y. M. C. A. in the United States. Prominent Atlantans, who will take part in the exercises are J. K. Orr, John J. Eagan, W. Woods White and Philip Colbert, general secretary of the central association on Luckie street. Professor John Hope, president of Morehouse college, will preside. An invitation to the formal opening has been extended to the white people of the city, for whom special seats will be reserved." Meta is mentioned on the second page: "On third floor is the Lobby, offices, men's game room and the gymnasium. A feature of the lobby, or loungeroom, is its wide, old fashioned fire place, over which hangs a bronze statue, entitled "Inspiration." It was designed by Mrs. Metta Fuller, of Boston, a pupil of the famous Rodin, of Paris, and represents an angel whispering into the ear of a downcast youth, pointing toward the rising sun, and bidding him rise for the sake of the unborn." Butler St. YMCA The Black City Hall of Atlanta 20-24 Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Street) Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, Georgia
• Newspaper Article_1920
  Very small newspaper article with no note on where it comes from. States "A portrait statuette of Maude Cuney Hare, the pianist, executed by the sculptress Meta Warrick Fuller, has been accepted by the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and is now on exhibit at the Academy's 115th annual exhibition."
• 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? Newspaper Article_1924
  Short newspaper article, undated and unnamed. Title of article is "Framingham Women's Club" and is as follows: "Her student days in Paris will be outlined by Mrs. S. C. Fuller, the sculptor and a local resident, at the meeting on Tuesday in charge of the art department. Mrs. James Glass, chairman. The talk will be illustrated with some of her own pieces and with pictures of famous work, some by Rodin, whose pupil Mrs. Fuller was."
• Framingham News_1924
  Short newspaper article, undated and unnamed. The article states: "The meeting of the Framingham Woman's Club on Tuesday will be in charge of the art department, Mrs. James Class, chairman. The speaker will be Mrs. S. C. Fuller of Framingham, whose work in sculpture is favorably known in art circles. Mrs. Fuller, whose subjects will be "Student Days in Paris," will illustrate her talk with examples of her work and with pictures, including representations of some of the work of the French sculptor Rodin, whose pupil she was in Paris."
• Framingham? Newspaper Article_1924
  Newspaper article from an undated and unnamed newspaper. Title of article is "Student Life While in Paris/ Interesting Recital Given Before the Woman's Club/ Mrs. S. C. Fuller Speaks/ Aim and Methods of Sculpture Fully Explained". Article is in three sections, with two overlapping each other. The first section has the second on its back, but Meta found another newspaper to cut from and included it under the first section. The additional second is missing the very end which as been taken from the back of the first. Article is as follows: "A great many members of the Framingham Woman's Club were disappointed Tuesday afternoon, the bad weather preventing their attendance. The surprisingly large number who did brave the storm were well repaid and there was no dampening of interest, even though every pause was filled with the sound of the pouring rain against the windows. Mrs. S. C. Fuller, in her account of her student life in Paris, was most interesting and the talk upon her department of art, which, as she syas, is so often overlooked, and quite seldom very well understood, was very enlightening and her descriptions of the city itself gave some new lights on its civic policy, particularly in its extraordinary cleanliness. Even after market day everything is absolutely cleared away. Mrs. James Glass, chairman of the Art department, was in charge of the program and the department is greatly indebted to Mr. Shannon of the Lincoln school, who kindly loaned his lantern for the occasion, together with a detail of boys to operate the same. With this assistance Mrs. Fuller threw upon the screen a succession of views of different parts of Paris, beginning with a map of the city, in which she showed the student quarters, the Latin quarter and Mont Martre, the quarter of the more well-to-do artists - together with many scenes in the city, the Palais des Beaux Arts, in which are held the Continued on Page Two Student Life While in Paris/Continued from Page One. ... Salons, and other public buildings. Interesting views in the Latin Quarter were the rows of book stalls along the Seine and similar characteristic scenes. Included in the slides were a number of photographs of the work of rodin with whom Mrs. Fuller studied, including is famous "Thinker" and of many of her own pieces which have won diplomas at exhibtions and which have been made for especial exhibits. Among them was Mrs. Fuller's group "The Wretched" which was exhibited in the Salon in Paris. Interspersed with her descriptions of Paris and its art were interesting little stories and descriptions of the careless happy student life, the hard work, often far into the night, lightened by the good fellowship, the fun and nonsense of their hours of relaxation, which Mrs. Fuller said is all perfectly pictured in the once famous, now almost forgotten "Trilby." She explained the aim and method of sculpture, which is not as easily understood as painting, embodying as it always does an idea which does not appear at the first glance. The piece through which Meta Fuller won the interest of the great artist Rodin was rather gruesome, "Secret Sorrow," representing a man literally "eating out his heart." On seeing it Rodin studied it a few moments and then said: "Madamoiselle, you are an artist. You have the sense of form in your fingers." A pretty head of "Sylvia," the speaker accompanied by reciting Shakespeare's poem "Who is Sylvia?" The last included "John the Baptist," "Peeping Tom," suggested by Tennyson's "Godiva" and many others and closed with her "Emancipation" group. The nature of her work prevented the exhibition of much in other than photograph form, but she had brought a few of her smaller pieces, which exhibited, among them the charming reproduction of her mother seated in an arm chair, the portrait statuette of Mrs. Maude Cuney Hare, which was exhibited recently at the 116th exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia [end second section] [start third section] In her talk, Mrs. Fuller traced the growth of sculpture from the earliest Egyptian, which was simple and massive through its development in Greek and early Gothic which was more realistic up to the impressionistic which goes beyond the real and shows things as they appear, rather than as they are. The slides gave many illustrations of each in statuary and architecture, and the afternoon was profitable in an unusual line of thought for everyone present. The president, Mrs. Brown, called attention to the unusual number of conferences in the State Federation during the next few weeks and called attention to the next meeting of the club, which will be a public meeting, at which Chief Strongheart will appear in full native costume and lecture on the subject, 'From Peace Pipe to War Trail.' This is an event that will appeal - the first on record - especially to the sons of club members."
• Agora Presentation Pamphlet_1924
  One page pamphlet with a printed cover inside a dashed boarder. On the cover it states "Presentation of/ Negro Art and Music/ by/ The Agora/ Alumnae Hall April 18, 1924" In between this is a Roman fringed helmet facing left with the word "Agora" on the fringe. Inside the pamphlet lists the Program in three sections on the inside front cover and Afro-American Music on the inner back cover. Meta presents illustrations for the second program "The Art of the Negro". During this presentation are several names of people Meta has portrayed in sculpture: Maud Cuney Hare played piano and S. Coleridge-Taylor sang a folk song.
• Chronicle Article_1920
  Short newspaper article with the title "Presentation of Art Piece/ of Famous Sculptress". In pencil written diagonally from the upper right corner is "Chronicle/ June 12 1920". The article states: "Atlanta, Ga., - The entire week beginning last Monday, was given over the Colored branch of the Y. W. C. A. to the presentation of a program by the different groups who have taken part in the work of construction of the branch building as far as it has gone. One of the features of the program was the formal presentation of an art piece the work of Meta Warrick Fuller, the well-known Negro sculptress."
• 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."
• The Sunday Star Newpaper_1919
  Long newspaper from "The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., March 9, 1919 - Part 2." There is a whole section on Notes of Art and Artists with a long circular red mark and arrow pointing to the bottom. This arrow points to a section of the article that focuses on sculptures and paintings by colored artists exhibited at the Dunbar High School on 1st Street in Washington, D. C., Meta is mentioned in the bottom third fold of the long article: "Among the sculpture was a plaque of Samuel Coolidge Taylor by Meta Werwick Fuller, very finely modeled, and a bust and a statuette by May Howard Jackson..."
• The Crisis_January 1918
  There is no title or date given to this clipping. There is drawn just visible to the upper left corner a hand pointing one finger downwards. The article states "Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was born and trained in Philadelphia. She won five free scholarships in succession at the School of Industrial Art, and then studied sculpture in Paris for three years, her last instructor being the great Rodin. Her work has been exhibited at the Paris salon and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. One of her little dancing figures has just been presented by Loie Fuller to the Cleveland Art Museum. Mrs. Fuller, who is the wife of Dr. Solomon Fuller, a well known alienist, is carrying on her work in Framingham, Mass." Also a drawing of Fuller on page 129
• 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 Transcript_1918
  Newspaper article in small typeface in two sections. Next to the article written in pencil is "Boston Transcript sat. Nov. 16, 1918" The article is as follows: "That we have our own deep-seated race prejudices to conquer, and our own race problems of the most serious nature to solve, was borne in upon the Listener the other day in a visit to the exhibit of sculpture by a young colored matron, Mrs. Meta Warrick Fuller, at the Soldiers' Comfort Unit in Massachusetts avenue, near Columbus avenue. Here is a colored woman's work of an arresting interest. It shows technical skill, well-trained - with gleams here and there of unmistakable excellence. It is youthful genius that has hardly unfolded as it certainly will under favoring conditions. Not that the artist has not had the best of teaching, so far as that goes in high art, having graduated from the Academy of Industrial Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, after which came three years in Paris, where she interested Rodin and exhibited in the Salon. Beside her technical merit - good modelling, anatomical knowledge - there is a certain 'gesture' in her work of the 'fine careless rapture' that is revealing and convincing, especially in certain portrait statuettes and sketches. Most of the pieces are small--chiefly groups for book-ends and odd character types. There is, however, one ambitious design for the coming peace memorial which won the prize of the Woman's Peace Party for Permanent Peace. The main figure of the design is a war-horse driven headlong by a blind rider with Death on the croup, reaching for the bridle. It is in this that the creative abandon most impresses the beholder. It has always been the Listener's belief that one broad 'way out,' open to all, for this young sculptor's race, lies through the fine arts. In fact, in every field of art - music, painting, sculpture, poetry--already there are the living examples to prove it. Art is the purest democracy in the world--ever has been, and ever must be."
• Modern Sculpture Newpaper Article_1917
  Newspaper article with the title "Modern Sculpture". Article is undate and not assigned to a newspaper producer. Article is as follows: "Cleveland Museum Acquires a Notable Group of Works by Rodin and Other Contemporary Sculptors. Some time ago the Cleveland Museum of Art announced that it had received as a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King a bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's "Le Penseur," one of four copies of this work in this hemisphere, the other three being in San Francisco, Baltimore and Buenos Aires. This famous bronze figure, heroic in scale was at first shown in the rotunda of the museum, but it is now placed in the centre of the first marble terrace in front of the main entrance. It is massive in conception as well as in actual bulk, and was, therefore, somewhat overpowering while in the rotunda, but in its present position the scale is better, and one is impressed more forcibly than ever by the strength and master of the sculptor's creation. Mr. King has now added to this gift a full-size cast of Rodin's earlier "Age of Bronze," which, however, is held in Paris for the present. Another example by the same master is also retained in Paris - a large bronze head of one of the "Bourgeois de Calais," the gift of Miss Emery May Holden. A plaster cast of this head is in the loggia of the garden court of the Cleveland Museum. Besides the above-mentioned bronzes, a small marble group by Rodin known as the "Little Brother and Sister" has recently been received by the Cleveland Museum as a gift from Salmon P. Halle. It is on exhibition in Gallery II. The marble is slightly translucent and beautifully white. The contour of the infants' bodies is subtle and alluring, and the profiles especially sweet, while the chubby limbs have a softness that Rodin knows how to produce. The bulletin of the Cleveland Museum states it is not unlikely that this will be one of the latest works by Rodin to find its way to America, since the artist has given to the French Government his entire collection of sketches, studies, original plasters and all the finished work in his possession (two pencil checkmarks to the side of this section). From Miss Loie Fuller has been received the original plaster model for the large bronze head which is to be Miss Holden's gift, now awaiting shipment from Paris; also, a small bronze of one of the "Bourgeois (scratched out with pencil writing to the right Parghese) de Calais" and a small bronze foot. When the two pieces from Paris arrive, the Cleveland Museum will be the fortunate possessor of seven examples of Rodin's work. In addition to the two pieces by Rodin, Miss Fuller has also presented to the Museum a charming little marble figure by Theodore Riviere, a bronze portrait figure of Miss Fuller by Pierre Roche, a small seated figure of Napoleon (pencil checkmark next to this sentence) by Carpeaux, a little dancing girl by Meta Warrick, and a bronze cast of the life-mask of Napoleon by Antommarchi. Miss Fuller and Madame Riviere have recently lent to the Museum a group of bronzes and marbles by Theodore Riviere, which are to be seen in the Gallery VI."
• Philadelphia newspaper_Former Resident Wins Art Prize _1917
  Newspaper article with the title "Former Resident Wins Art Prize". Article is undated and not assigned to a newspaper producer. The article is as follows: "Mrs. Meta Vaux Fuller, a graduate of the local High School and former resident of this city, but residing with her husband, Dr. Solomon P. Fuller, at Framingham, Mass., has been awarded the second prize offered by the Massachusetts Branch of the Women's Peace Party for the best piece of sculpture depicting Peace. Mrs. Fuller is a daughter of Mrs. Warrick of this city. Mrs. Fuller was graduated several years ago from the High School at was given a scholarship to the Industrial Art School of Philadelphia, where she studied for a number of years. Mrs. Fuller was married about three years ago and her husband is now in charge of a large insane asylum at Framingham. Mrs. Fuller's group which won the second prize is entitled "Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War."