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Title: The Negro in literature and art in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Subjects: African American authors African American artists African American musicians American literature -- African American authors History and criticism
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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orkmanship. His wholecareer is an inspiration and a challenge toaspiring painters, and his work is a monumentof sturdy endeavor and exalted achievement. XI SCULPTORS.—META WARRICK FULLER IN sculpture, as well as in painting, therehas been a beginning of highly artisticachievement. The first person to come intoprominence was Edmonia Lewis, born in NewYork in 1845. A sight of the statue of Franklin,in Boston, inspired within this young womanthe desire also to make a stone man. Gar-rison introduced her to a sculptor who encour-aged her and gave her a few suggestions, butaltogether she received little instruction in herart. In 1865 she attracted considerable at-tention by a bust of Robert Gould Shaw,exhibited in Boston. In this same year shewent to Rome to continue her studies, and twoyears later took up her permanent residencethere. Among her works are: The Freed-woman, The Death of Cleopatra (exhibitedat the exposition in Philadelphia in 1876),Asleep, The Marriage of Hiawatha, and 112
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META WARRICK FULLER ■ Sculptors.—Meta Warrick Fuller 113 Madonna with the Infant Christ. Amongher busts in terra cotta are those of JohnBrown, Charles Sumner, Lincoln, and Long-fellow. Most of the work of Edmonia Lewisis in Europe. More recently the work of Mrs.May Howard Jackson, of Washington, hasattracted the attention of the discerning. Thissculptor has made several busts, among hersubjects being Rev. F. J. Grimke and Dr.DuBois, and Mother and Child is one ofher best studies. Bertina Lee, of Trenton,N. J., is one of the promising young sculptors.She is from the Trenton Art School and hasalready won several valuable prizes. The sculptor at the present time of assuredposition is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Meta Vaux Warrick was born in Philadelphia,June 9, 1877. She first compelled seriousrecognition of her talent by her work in thePennsylvania School of Industrial Art, forwhich she had won a scholarship, and whichshe attended for four years. Here one of herfirst original pieces i

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