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Gift from the Fuller Family

It wasn’t easy for a woman born in the 19th century to forge a career as a sculptor, and even more unlikely that an African American woman would succeed in the field. But Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller studied art, honed her craft in Paris, befriended W.E.B. Dubois and August Rodin, and created this statue, “Ethiopia,” in its time a highly regarded tribute to the emergence of a new African American identity.

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