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...Caitlin Beach In 1919 the sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller modeled the statuette Mary Turner: A Silent Protest against Mob Violence . One of the earliest three-dimensional works of art to address the subject of lynching, the sculpture was dedicated to the memory of Turner, a nineteen-year-old pregnant...

...Erika Schneider From Salon entries brokered by French sculptor Auguste Rodin to US government commissions supported by American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, the African American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968) used white plaster to execute her finished works at the beginning of her...

...Emily E. Mangione The assignment awarded to pioneering Black sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller—to envision an inherited past and future offerings for “Americans of Negro lineage” at the 1921 America’s Making Exposition—was daunting. The result, Ethiopia , takes this charge as an opportunity...

... in mimetic and technical drawing with as­ signments that encouraged students to expand their imaginations and look toward their future selves.30 While the models are not extant, subsequent dioramas expand on their strategies. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, then a sculptor training in Paris, saw the models while...

... as the sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, New York Public Library at 135th Street and Lenox to whose bronze Ethiopia Awakening (1914) Jones’s Avenue (now the Schomburg Center for Research in work pays homage. The Ascent of Ethiopia, which Black Culture), where regular art exhibitions, dra- celebrated the racial...

... Douglas, Hale Woodruff, and Meta Vaux movement have been a major driving force in Warrick Fuller formed the genesis of a modernist I the growth of a remarkable, rich, and diverse style and aesthetic that influenced the development array of aesthetics and styles, driven by a concern of African...