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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (/ m iː t ə ˈ v aʊ / MEE-tə VOW; born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968 [a]) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance , Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience.
Metta Victor (née Metta Victoria Fuller; March 2, 1831 – June 26, 1885), who used the pen name Seeley Regester among others, was an American novelist, credited with authoring one of the first detective novels in the United States.
The statue was created in plaster in 1913 by artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the order which abolished slavery in the United States. [2] [3] In 1999 it was cast in bronze and placed in Harriet Tubman Park. In 2013, quotes from Fuller describing emancipation were engraved on ...
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Mary Turner, painted plaster sculpture, 1919 Mary Turner (c. 1885 [ 11 ] – 19 May 1918) was a young, married black woman and mother of three—including an unborn child—who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia , for having protested the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Meta Fuller Sinclair Sinclair's grave in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. In April 1900, Sinclair went to Lake Massawippi in Quebec to work on a novel, renting a small cabin for three months and then moving to a farmhouse where he was reintroduced to his future first wife, Meta Fuller (1880–1964).
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Credit - David Paul Morris/Bloomberg ...