Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth, 1890-1960

found: Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy, 2007:CIP t.p. (Nancy Elizabeth Prophet) data sheet (1890-1960) book page 45 and endnote 13 (born March 13, 1890, as Nancy Elizabeth Profitt; changed spelling of last name to Prophet before traveling to France in June 1922) chronology (Nancy Elizabeth Proffitt; changed spelling of last name in 1932; died December 13, 1960)

found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed March 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth; sculptor; born 19 March 1890 in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States; graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) (1918); studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1922-1925); exhibited at the avant-garde Salon d'Automne, Paris; won the Harmon Foundation's Otto Kahn Prize in sculpture for her Head of a Negro (1930); attended the Colonial Exposition in Paris (1931); created the most famous work of her lifetime, Congolais, an elegant depiction of a Masai warrior (1931); joined the faculty at Atlanta University's Art Department (1934-1944); the last twenty years of her life were marked by loneliness, poverty, and personal tragedy; died December 1960 in Rhode Island, United States)