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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller | |
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 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller in 1910 | |
| Born | Meta Vaux Warrick June 9, 1877 |
| Died | March 13, 1968 (aged 90)[a] |
| Education | University of the Arts, College of Art and Design, Académie Colarossi, École des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Sculptor, painter, poet |
| Movement | Harlem Renaissance |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | William H. Warrick Emma Jones |
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (/miːtə ˈvaʊ/ MEE-tə VOW; born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968[a]) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20th century, she achieved a reputation as the first black woman sculptor and was a well-known sculptor in Paris before returning to the United States.[1]
Warrick was a protégée of Auguste Rodin, and has been described as "one of the most imaginative Black artists of her generation."[2] Through adopting a horror-based figural style and choosing to depict events of racial injustice, like the lynching of Mary Turner, Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans.[3]
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- ^ "Negro Girl Wins Fame Is The Only Sculptress Of The Colored Race. Meta Vaux Warrick." Wichita Searchlight (Wichita, Kansas), November 8, 1902: 1. Readex: African American Newspapers.
- ^ Arna Alexander Bontemps; Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps, eds. (2001). "African-American Women Artists: An Historical Perspective". Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Keyworks in Cultural Studies. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell. pp. 133–137. ISBN 0631222391. The editors compare Warrick with her contemporary, May Howard Jackson, another African-American sculptor from Philadelphia, who was also born in 1877.
- ^ Ater, Renée (2011). Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26212-6. OCLC 775736931.[page needed]