ARTNOIR'S AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORY 101

META VAUX WARRICK FULLER (1877-1968)

Born in Philadelphia, Meta's ability was recognized early when she was selected over other grade school students to spend one day a week studying industrial art with J. Liberty Tadd. In 1894 she received a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). She continued to receive other scholarshps during her college years.

Meta received awards for her bas-relief frieze The Procession of Arts and Crafts, Head of Medusa (her first original piece in clay) and the Crucifixion of Christ in Agony, all prompting her advisers to insist that she study in Paris in 1899 at the Colarossi Academy under Charles Grafly. She participated in several exhibitions including the Paris Salon in 1898 and 1899 featuring The Wretched (1903), The Man Carrying a Dead Comrade and The Penitent Thief. James A. Porter, in MODERN NEGRO ART wrote that Rodin visited her studio and encouraged her, and that "she found his conception of sculptural form and his philosophy of art helpful in resolving her own problems of expression."

In 1907 she was awarded a gold medal at the Jamestown Exposition for fourteen tableaux depicted the progress of the Negro. Other exhibitions included the Woman's Peace Party, Massachusetts Branch (1917) Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War; awards were received from the Harmon Foundation, 1931 and 1933 Water Boy (bronze, 1914); the New York State Emancipation Exhibition, 1931; the 135th Street branch, New York Public Library, and The Awakening of Ethiopia was displayed at the Evolution of Afro-American Artists: 1800-1950 in New York, 1967.

Meta received a Doctor of Letters in 1962 from Livingstone College. She maintained her studio in Farmingham, Mass. Her works are included in collections at the Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts; the Atlanta Y.M.C.A.; the Schomburg Collection, 135th Street Branch, N.Y. Public Library; the Center Library and the Episcopal Church in Framingham; Howard University, Gallery of Art; the Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N.C., and Livingstone College, Salisbury, Mass.

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