The New World
Created by May Creamer
Date: 1922
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Description: Crouching, black, female nude with upright torso and hands on knees. Hair braided and gathered at nape of neck. Simple base is integral to work and merges with back of the figure.
Notes: Illustrated in The Daily Express, 26 April 1922. Artist statement in same publication expresses her intention to celebrate the beauty of black American women in the Southern States of the USA.
Sources
Catalogue of the Twenty-eighth London Exhibition, 1922, held at the Grafton Galleries, Grafton Street, W.1
1922
p. 71 (504)
International Society press cuttings, from spring 1921
1921 (Circa)
Illustrated, reasonably neutral review in Daily Express, 26 April 1922.
Citing this record
'The New World', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1205786803, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
