Daily News | Overlooked Philly artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s sculptures come to The Philadelphia Show
that opens in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s East Terrace this weekend. “She was discriminated against in her day as a person of African descent, and…because she was a female...And despite all that, she still was able to create some powerful works that deserve everybody’s attention.”
Upon returning to the U.S., she married a psychiatrist and moved to Framingham, Mass. Though her husband preferred that she focus on domestic work instead of art, she secretly built a studio nearby where she continued her craft. Sadly, her existing body of work is limited, made even smaller after a 1910 fire destroyed a Philadelphia warehouse which housed many of the sculptures she had made in France.
At the annual art and antiques fair that runs April 28-30, Hanks’ gallery, which specializes in African American art, joins 41 exhibitors selling rare maps, American visual art, antique furniture, and other collectibles. He is selling a smallsculpture from a limited edition of 7 bronzes, along with two artist’s proofs, for $50,000. The two other Fuller sculptures for sale are from 1930:Hanks acquired the works from Fuller’s granddaughter, Meta Fuller Waller, who was named for the sculptor.
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