Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Letterpress Print
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
NANCY ELIZABETH PROPHET
(née Nancy Elizabeth Profitt; March 19, 1890 – December 13, 1960)
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet was an American artist of African-American and Native-American ancestry known for her sculpture. She was the first African-American graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1918 and later studied at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris during the early 1920s. She became noted for her work in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1934, Prophet began teaching at Spelman College, expanding the curriculum to include modeling and history of art and architecture. Prophet died in 1960 at the age of 70.