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1. Ethiopia
- Creator:
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1925]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 137
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in October 1921. Incised at the back of the base: "MVW Fuller" and a copyright symbol
- Description:
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. and Title from Renée Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ethiopia
2. Green apples.
- Creator:
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962, artist
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 139 (Art)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- A bronze sculpture by Augusta Savage portraying a boy holding his stomach and grimacing in pain. It is titled on the front of the base: "Green Apples." It is signed on the top of the base with the artist's monogram, "Savage" lettered vertically within a chevron, and dated 1928.
- Description:
- Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Bequest of Grayce Fairfax Nail, 1970., and Title from base of sculpture.
- Subject (Name):
- Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Green apples.
3. Lift every voice and sing.
- Creator:
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962, artist
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 136 (Art)
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Small-scale reproduction of Augusta Savage's plaster sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing" designed for and displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The cast metal souvenir is lettered on the front "Life Every Voice and Sing" and on the back at the base, "Worlds Fair 1939." It bears a paper label on the underside of its base: "Reproduction of a Work of Art Created by Augusta Savage, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' now on exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Augusta Savage Studios, Inc. 143 West 125th Street, New York, N.Y."
- Description:
- Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1970., Label in English., and Title from paper label.
- Subject (Name):
- Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lift every voice and sing.
4. Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
- Creator:
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
- Published / Created:
- [20th century]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 138 (Art)
- Container / Volume:
- (Art)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
- Description:
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
