BLACK IN TIME: A Moment In OUR History (356 hits)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

The Sculptress, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Was Born June 9, 1877, In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Fuller Was One Of The Principal Visual Artists During The Harlem Renaissance Of The 1920s. She Was The First Black American Artist To Feature Afrocentric Themes In Her Work -- Largely From Black American Folktales. Her Best-Known Works Are Bronze Sculpture Called Ethiopia Awakening
(1914) And Mary Turner (1919).

As A You Girl, Fuller Received A Scholarship To Study At The Pennsylvania Museum And School For Industrial Arts By The Turn Of The Century, She Was Studying With French Sculptor, Rodin, In Paris.She Was An Established Artist In Both The United States And France, At. The Onset Of The Harlem Renaissance.

Ms Fuller Never Actually Lived In Harlem -- Preferring, Instead To Reside In Boston And Framingham, Massachusetts, Which To Her, More Closely Resembled A European Lifestyle. She Did, However, Embody The Ideals Of The Harlem Renaissance.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Died March 13, 1968.


THE WORKS OF META FULLER




"In Order For Black History To Live, Me Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It." - Hubert Gaddy, Jr.

The BLACK IN TIME ONLINE RESOURCE CENTER
FOR BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE

Hugh Gaddy

Create Your Badge

 

 

 

Posted By: Hugh Gaddy
Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 8:05PM
You can also click here to view all posts by this author...