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Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick

Sex:  Female

Born:  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
9 June 1877

Died:  United States
18 March 1968

Activity/Profession:  Sculptor, Civil Rights Activist

5 articles on Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick

• Fuller, Meta Warrick

  Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century

  Word Count: 1078      Includes:  Bibliography

  (b. 9 June 1877; d. 18 March 1968), sculptor. Born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Meta Vaux Warrick received a strong liberal arts education that included private lessons in dance, music, art, and horseback riding. She was recognized early as an artist when one of her sculptures was accepted for exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Warrick received formal art training at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts), from which she graduated with a diploma and teaching certificate in 1898.

  Like many other artists of the era, she left for Paris as soon as possible after her graduation to continue her training and to work in a more open and racially free environment. While in Paris ...
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• Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick

  Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition

  Word Count: 1074     

  1877–1968
  African American sculptor, one of the earliest studio artists to depict black themes. “Art must be the quintessence of meaning. Creative art means you create for yourself. Inspirations can come from most anything. Tell the world how you feel … take the chance … try, try!” This statement by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller reflects the spirit of a woman who created bold, dramatic work that took new chances in African American art. Fuller was born in Philadelphia in 1877, the daughter of two successful entrepreneurs—her father owned a catering business and a barber shop, and her mother was a hairdresser—and grew up in a privileged home, receiving lessons in art, music, dance, and horseback riding. When one of her high school projects at the J. Liberty Tadd Industrial Art School was selected to be part ...
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• Fuller, Meta Warrick

  Source: African American National Biography

  Word Count: 1855      Includes:  Further Reading

  (9 June 1877–Mar. 1968), sculptor, was born Meta Vaux Warrick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William H. Warrick and Emma Jones. Meta's great grandmother, according to family lore, was an Ethiopian princess brought to the American colonies as a slave. Emma owned and operated several hairdressing parlors that catered to a white clientele. William owned a chain of barbershops and dabbled in real estate. Meta was ten years younger than her two siblings, William and Blanche. Through lessons and field trips to museums and concerts, the Warricks introduced their children to art and encouraged their creative endeavors. Meta, who played the guitar, took dancing lessons, and sang in the church choir, exhibited an early talent for drawing. ...
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• Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick

  Source: Black Women in America, Second Edition

  Word Count: 2862      Includes:  Bibliography

  (b. 6 June 1877; d. 13 March 1968),
  one of America's first studio sculptors of African American ancestry who was an integral part of the artistic and social ferment that subsequently blossomed into the Harlem Renaissance. Described by her peers as “elegantly Victorian” and “deeply spiritual,” Meta Warrick Fuller was, according to W. E. B. Du Bois, “one of those persons of ability and genius whom accidents of education and opportunity had raised on a tidal wave of chance.”

  Meta Vaux Warrick was born in Philadelphia to William H. Warrick Jr., a master barber, and Emma (Jones) Warrick, a wigmaker and hairdresser. Both owned and managed their own businesses in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the family spent its summers. Emma Warrick's father operated a catering business and, like ...
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• Fuller, Meta Vaux

  Source: Grove Art Online

  Word Count: 360      Includes:  Bibliography

  (b. Philadelphia, PA, 9 Jan 1877; d. Framingham, MA, 1968).

  American sculptor. Her long career anticipated and included the period of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s (see African american art, §2). She studied at the Pennsylvania Museum and School for Industrial Art, Philadelphia, from 1893 to 1899. This was followed by a period in Paris (1899–1902) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi. She exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her early work, with themes of death and sorrow, was characterized by a powerful expressionism. At the Tercentennial Exposition (1907) she was awarded a gold medal for the Jamestown Tableau, a fifteen-piece sculpture that recorded the settlement of the black community of Jamestown in 1607. In 1909 she married and settled in Framingham, MA.

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