Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf Guide to Photo­graphs at the Pennsylvania State Archives by Linda A. Ries Pennsylvania Histori­cal and Museum Commission, 1993 (229 pages, paper, $6.95) Although the Pennsylvania State Archives safeguards mostly documentary materi­als – such as the private and personal papers of individuals, governmental records, maps, military records, industrial reports, and similar archival items...
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The Protégé Becomes a Prophet: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Protégé Becomes a Prophet: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) pronounced her a born artist, and in the dazzling cultural circles of Paris her works of art garnered breathless praise. Yet, in her own country, African American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1962) of Philadelphia lived and worked unknown to many, until at last she emerged from the stultifying shadows of racial intolerance and domestic responsibilities to...
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Sculpture by Harriet Whitney Frishuth

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Sculpture by Harriet Whitney Frishuth A native of Philadelphia, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) earned an enviable niche in early twentieth-century art circles with her sensitive, lithe sculptures of the female form in extended poses. Not long after her parents Louise Otto Berens and Frank Beroni Frishmuth separated, the young Frishmuth and her older two sisters sailed with their mother to Europe, where the girls attended...
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