Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (bɛ daa boli o la Nancy Elizabeth Profitt bɛ ni daa dɔɣi o Silimiin goli March biɛɣ'pishi yini ka dali yuuni 1890 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli December biɛɣ'pinaata dali yuuni 1960) daa nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda zaŋ n-ti African-American.

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
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Discontent, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet(American sculptor, 1890-1960); Date: c.1929

Le Pélerin, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, (American sculptor, 1890-1960); Bernes, Marouteau& C. (Photographer); Date: c.1922-1929

Head of a Cossack, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, (American sculptor, 1890-1960); Date: 1940

Exhibitions

• 1924: Salon d'Automne; exhibits a wooden bust
• 1928: Exhibition of Work by Former Students and Teachers in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Rhode Island School of Design; features Silence and Head of a Negro
• 1929:
  • Boston Society of Independent Artists; exhibits Head of a Cossack
  • Société des Artistes Français; exhibits Buste d'homme
• 1931–32: Salon d'Automne
• 1930s: Harmon Foundation and Whitney Biennial
• 1945: Providence Public Library
• 1978: “Four from Providence”, Bannister Gallery of Rhode Island College
• 2024: "Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch", Rhode Island School of Design

Bibliography

Books

• Amaki, Amalia K. and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee. Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy. Seattle, WA: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art with University of Washington Press, 2007.
• Bannister Gallery (Rhode Island College). Four from Providence: Bannister, Prophet, Alston, Jennings: Black Artists in the Rhode Island Social Landscape. Providence: Rhode Island College, 1978.
• Farrington, Lisa. "Creating Their Own Image: The History of African American Women Artists." NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Hirshler, Erica E. A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940. Boston: MFA Publications, 2001.
• Leininger-Miller, Theresa. New Negro Artist in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001
• Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. Sculpture: The Adventure of Modern Sculpture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1986.

Articles

• Alisha Pina, "Sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, RISD's First Black Graduate...," Providence Journal, 14 April 2014.

Online resources

• "Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Collection, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College". Accessed September 4, 2019
• "Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, An Unknown Sculptor." The St. James Guide to Black Artist. Ed. Thomas Riggs. African American Registry Online. 1997. ISBN 1-55862-220-9. Accessed 2014-05-22.
• Ask Art: The American Artists Bluebook. 2007 Accessed December 19, 2011
• The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. 2003. Accessed April 16, 2007.

External links

• Media related to Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at Wikimedia Commons
• Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth. "Negro Head, before 1927." Wood. Collections. RISD Museum. Access Date 8 July 2014
• Nilsson, Casey. "The Resurrection of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: A black female sculptor from Warwick died penniless and without recognition. The RIBHS and RICH hope to change that." Rhode Island Monthly (March 2014). Access Date 8 July 2014.
• Simonesoldnz. "Honoring RISD’s First Black Graduate" Our RISD: A Place to Show and Tell 11 June 2014. Access Date 8 July 2014