Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

This reading list is not exhaustive and serves as a starting point to learn more about Nancy Elizabeth Prophet.

Video

African American students learn painting and sculpture at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 (Timestamp 1:14)

Archives

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Diary| Brown University Archival & Manuscript Collections 

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Collection| James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College

W. E. B. Du Bois papers| Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

Selected Books and Articles 

Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy by Amalia K.Amaki and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee  

“Elizabeth Prophet: Sculptress” by Countee Cullen| Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life 

“Elizabeth Prophet, Sculptor”| The Crisis 

“Elizabeth Prophet Names Among Famous Women in America”| Atlanta University Bulletin 

“Elizabeth Prophet, Sculpture Prize Winner”| Providence Evening Bulletin 

New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light: 1922-1934 by Theresa A.Leininger-Miller

“Negro Father, 88, Sees Famous Daughter’s Work at Library”| New York Public Library

“Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth”| Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“Rhode Island Wood-Carver Awarded Prize”|  Student Designer (Rhode Island School of Design)

“Simone Leigh: For Her Own Pleasure and Edification” by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts| Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize