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Description: The Meta Warrick Fuller Papers consist of personal and professional papers, correspondence (1880s-1960s), subject files, estate papers, and diaries documenting aspects of the career of this important sculptor.
Names: Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968 (Creator); Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968 (Author); Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968 (Addressee); Fuller, Solomon C. (Solomon Carter), 1872-1953 (Correspondent); Fuller, Solomon Carter (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1864 - 1990
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc MG 395
Topics: Fuller, Solomon C. (Solomon Carter), 1872-1953; Warrick, William Henry; African American artists; African American women artists; Sculptors -- United States; Women artists -- United States; Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
Genres: Correspondence; Documents; Diaries; Poetry; visitors' books
Notes: Biographical/historical: 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 1890s, 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, a Liberian-born and American- educated neuropathologist and psychiatrist.; Content: The Meta Warrick Fuller papers consist of personal and professional papers, correspondence (1880s-1960s), subject files, estate papers, and diaries, all of which document aspects of the career of this important sculptor. Papers pertaining to Fuller's artistic career consist of files providing lists and prices of her artwork; exhibitions during and after her lifetime; her poetry and prose; and biographical information. Her incomplete diaries cover the years 1895-1897 and 1940-1965; she also maintained address and guest books. Family papers include correspondence and documents from the estate of her brother, William Henry Warrick, a prominent Philadelphia physician. Papers pertaining to her husband, Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, a noted psychiatrist, include correspondence and publications. Additionally, there is poetry written by her son, Solomon C. Fuller, Jr., files that he kept dealing with Meta Fuller's estate, and requests for loans of her artwork for exhibitions.; Acquisition: Gift of Solomon C. Fuller, Jr., 1990.; Content: Processing information: Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere, November 1990. Processed as part of the Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.; Content: Separated material: Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs
Physical Description: Extent: 2 boxes 2.0 linear feet
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Sc MG 395; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11660950; MSS Unit ID: 20665; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d11abf80-2585-013b-384e-0242ac110003

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