Research Catalog

Title

Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.

Publication

[187-?]-1976.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Giro, Daniel J.
• Reindorf, Alex A.
• Purdy.
• Edwards, J. Clinton.
• Broadbent & Taylor (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Schervee & Bushong (Worcester, Mass.)
• Boston University Photo Service (Boston, Mass.)
• Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Found In

p1bc Fuller, Meta Warrick Meta Warrick Fuller papers, 1864-1990 (CstRLIN)NYPW088000010-A

Description

• 144 items (.6 lin. ft., 2 boxes); 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
• 27 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 32 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 29 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 19 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 1 photographic print : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 4 photographic prints : col. ;
• 3 photographic prints : albumen, b&w ;
• 5 photographic prints : b&w ;
• 7 card photographs : b&w ;
• 4 photomechanical prints : b&w ;
• 1 tintype ;
• 2 postcards : b&w ;
• 10 negatives : b&w ;

Summary

The Meta Warrick Fuller Photograph Collection consists of images depicting aspects of Fuller's personal and professional life from the 1870s to the 1960s.

Subject

• Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
• Fuller, Solomon C. 1872-1953
• Warrick, William Henry
• Fuller, Tom
• Alzheimer, Alois
• Jones, Lois Mailou
• African American artists
• African American women artists
• African American sculptors
• Women artists > United States
• African American physicians
• Neurologists > United States

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1870-1969.
• Group portraits – 1880-1979.
• Snapshots.
• Postcards.
• Silver gelatin prints – 1870-1979.
• Photographic prints – Color – 1950-1969.
• Albumen prints.
• Cartes de visite – 1870-1889.
• Boudoir card photographs – 1890-1899.
• Tintypes – 1900-1909.
• Negatives.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some items have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso; some items have photographer's or photography studio's credit either printed or blind stamped to recto or verso of photo mount.
• Some items have handwritten notations or descriptive information on verso; some items have handwritten captions on recto; some items are duplicates; some items are reproductions.
• Collection contains work by Daniel J. Giro, Scurlock Studios, and others.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some photographs restricted; permission of the photographer is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a sculptor, was born in Philadelphia in 1877.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Meta Warrick Fuller Papers, 1864-1990.

Call Number

Sc Photo Meta Warrick Fuller Collection

OCLC

NYPG98-F131

Author

Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.

Title

Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[187-?]-1976.

Terms Of Use

Some photographs restricted; permission of the photographer is required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Meta Warrick Fuller Papers, 1864-1990.

Biography

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a sculptor, was born in Philadelphia in 1877. She was one of the first renowned Africa-American women sculptors in the United States and was known for dealing with the African-American experience in her work and depicting African-American subjects at a time when such themes were considered too controversial.

She received her education at the Pennsylvania Museum School for the Industrial Arts (1894-1897); moved to Paris, from 1899-1902, where she studied drawing and sculpture at the Academie Colarossi and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, as well as under painter Henry O. Tanner and sculptor Auguste Rodin. She returned to the United States in 1903 and opened a studio in Philadelphia. In 1907 she was commissioned by the Jamestown Trecentennial Exposition to create a tableaux for the Negro Pavillion, representing black progress since the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619. She received a gold medal from the Trecentennial Exposition for the 150 figure diorama she produced.

In 1909, she married Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, a Liberian-born neurologist, who was, at Boston University's School of Medicine, one of the first African-American physicians to serve on the faculty of a predominantly white medical school. They had three sons. In 1910, the bulk of Meta's early work was destroyed in a warehouse fire in Philadelphia. After a brief lapse in her work, she resumed her career in 1913, and received commissions from W.E.B. DuBois, the City of New York, the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C., the Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital and Framingham Center Library during the 1910s and 1920s. As she became more involved with African-American political and social life, she continued to focus on the theme of the African-American experience in her work during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1940s Solomon became ill, and his death in 1953, along with Meta's contraction of tuberculosis, sidelined her career until 1957. She continued working until her death in 1968.

Local Note

Sc MG 395

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Added Author

Giro, Daniel J. Photographer

Reindorf, Alex A. Photographer

Purdy. Photographer

Edwards, J. Clinton. Photographer

Broadbent & Taylor (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Schervee & Bushong (Worcester, Mass.)

Boston University Photo Service (Boston, Mass.)

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Found In:

p1bc Fuller, Meta Warrick Meta Warrick Fuller papers, 1864-1990 (CstRLIN)NYPW088000010-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Meta Warrick Fuller Collection