Research Catalog

Title

Meta Warrick Fuller papers, 1864-1990.

Author

Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.

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Additional Authors

Fuller, Solomon Carter.

Description

1.5 lin. ft.

Summary

The Meta Warrick Fuller Papers consist of personal and professional papers, correspondence (1880's-1960's), subject files, her estate papers, and diaries documenting aspects of the career of this important sculptor.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Sculptors > United States
• Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
• Women artists > United States
• Warrick, William Henry
• Fuller, Solomon C (Solomon Carter), 1872-1953
• African American artists
• African American women artists

Source (note)

• Fuller, Solomon C., Jr.

Biography (note)

• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a productive sculptor for over seventy years whose work may be divided into distinct phases. Early works beginning in the 1890's dealt with the grotesque followed by her growing interest in African-American themes and more realism. Later she focused on religious subjects. Portraiture and mythological figures were also the subject of many of her works.
• Born in Philadelphia to a middle class family, Fuller showed an early interest in the performing and fine arts, and won a scholarship to J. Liberty Tadd's Industrial Art School . She earned her diploma, in 1898, from Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts). She received a postgraduate scholarship to specialize in sculpture and in 1899 arrived in Paris to begin three years of study. During her final year in Paris, she met the great sculptor Auguste Rodin, who was impressed with her work and often critiqued it. A 1910 fire at her studio destroyed almost all her early work, and she later opened another studio in Massachussets. Fuller received many diverse commissions over the years, exhibited regularly, and also guided young artists. She was married to Solomon Carter Fuller, Liberian born and American educated neuropathologist and psychiatrist.

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• Accessioned
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 395

OCLC

NYPW088000010-A

Author

Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.

Title

Meta Warrick Fuller papers, 1864-1990.

Biography

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a productive sculptor for over seventy years whose work may be divided into distinct phases. Early works beginning in the 1890's dealt with the grotesque followed by her growing interest in African-American themes and more realism. Later she focused on religious subjects. Portraiture and mythological figures were also the subject of many of her works.

Born in Philadelphia to a middle class family, Fuller showed an early interest in the performing and fine arts, and won a scholarship to J. Liberty Tadd's Industrial Art School . She earned her diploma, in 1898, from Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts). She received a postgraduate scholarship to specialize in sculpture and in 1899 arrived in Paris to begin three years of study. During her final year in Paris, she met the great sculptor Auguste Rodin, who was impressed with her work and often critiqued it. A 1910 fire at her studio destroyed almost all her early work, and she later opened another studio in Massachussets. Fuller received many diverse commissions over the years, exhibited regularly, and also guided young artists. She was married to Solomon Carter Fuller, Liberian born and American educated neuropathologist and psychiatrist.

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Added Author

Fuller, Solomon Carter.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 395