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.



 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

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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.  . 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

 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

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Category:1890 births
Category:1960 deaths
Category:African-American sculptors
Category:Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Category:People from Warwick, Rhode Island
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:Artists from Rhode Island
Category:20th-century African-American women
Category:20th-century African-American artists
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:African-American women sculptors
Category:American women sculptors