Framingham Evening News_June 6,1917

Newspaper article from The Evening News, Framingham, Mass. Wednesday, June 6, 1917. The title of the article is "Wins Second Prize of $25/ Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller in Competition/ Wax Model of Merit/ Represents "Peace Halting Ruthlessness of War"" Article is as follows: " Mrs. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, of Framingham, whose work in sculpture is well known in the world of art, has recently been awarded the second prize of $25, in a competition conducted by the art committee of the Massachusetts branch of the Woman's Peace Party. The piece which was present for judgment[sic.] by Mrs. Fuller, together with that which won the first prize, is on exhibition at the headquarters of the Woman's Peace Party, 421 Boylston street, Boston. The prizes were offered for the best paintings, drawings or sculpture which of their conception should promote the constructive peace movement. Mrs. Fuller's group, which is modeled in gray-green wax, and stands about 20 inches high, is entitled "Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War." It represents War, beside himself with the craze of slaughter, mounted on a wildly plunging steed which tramples and crushes crowds of cowering human beings. Both horse and rider are blind, and War wears on his countenance a horrible leering laugh. In his right hand he carries a spear, a human head, a war trophy, impaled upon its point. From beneath the helmet the symbolic/Continued on Page Six. scarf, the love token of Mediaeval[sic.] times, twines and flutters about the shaft of the spear. A beautiful figure of Peace has alighted before the maddened steed and with upraised hand commands him to stop. The group is modelled with a fine effect of life and action and reflects the strong mentality and abundant life of the artist. The effect of arrested action is striking and vivid. In speaking of the idea which she sought to embody in her work, Mrs. Fuller said that she had in her mind, subconsiously, while at work upon the group, something of the thought expressed in the fifteenth chapter of the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, the contrasting of power, spiritual and temporal, - Peace the spiritual power which shall strengthen and sustain that which is temporal. Mrs. Fuller, who is the wife of Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, of Warren road, is a graduate of a Philadelphia art school of note, and her work is known quite widely in art circles throughout the country."

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The Evening News, Framingham, Mass. Wednesday, June 6, 1917

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