DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Framingham News _December 20, 1918

Newspaper article in 4 parts from "Framingham, Mass. Friday, December 20, 1918" The title of the article is "By Sudden End of War/ Suggests Piece of Sculpture by Mrs. S. C. Fuller/ Noble Figure of Peace/ Springs From Out Clouded Battlefields in France". The article is as follows: Mrs. S. C. Fuller, Warren road, is at work upon a piece of sculpture, [start second section] the idea of which was suggested to her mind by the sudden ending of the war. The details are not all worked out yet, but the vivid representation of life that characterizes all of Mrs. Fuller's work is brought out in a manner that makes the observer share in the artist's inspiration. From the battle field strewn with dead and dying, with broken cannon and debris of the fight, rises a cloud, out of which springs a nobel figure of Peace. The right hand holds aloft a large banner, in the left is the olive branch. The face, strong and spiritual at the same time, shows the suffering, agony and suspense of the exultation of the final triumph, and a clear, long look into the future. Mrs. Fuller's thought was to show Peace, coming as it did, suddenly, out of a cloud, as it were, when we had expected to endure some years more of war. In the dim confusion of the battle field below, here and there a wounded man raises himself to look up and stretch a feeble hand towards the glorious figure, whose free lines, flowing drapery, its abounding life and the lofty conception of the whole, show in a striking manner the genious of the artist whose work [start third section] By Sudden End of War/Continued from Page One is too little known in Framingham. An earlier piece, done by Mrs. Fuller at the beginning of the war and on a similar theme, was on exhibition at the rooms of the Woman's Peace Party in Boston, some time ago, and was described in The News."

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"By Sudden End of War/ Suggests Piece of Sculpture by Mrs. S. C. Fuller/ Noble Figure of Peace/ Springs From Out Clouded Battlefields in France". Framingham News, December 20, 1918

December 20, 1918