Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Begins Sculpting Career

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a Philadelphia-born artist, traveled to Paris in 1898 to study sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts and gained the personal encouragement of Auguste Rodin. Her haunting, psychologically intense sculptures depicting Black American experience won recognition in French artistic circles. Fuller became one of the first Black women to achieve international recognition as a fine artist, and her work is considered a precursor to the Harlem Renaissance's celebration of Black visual culture.