Christ Holding Lamb

Item

Artist

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Title

Christ Holding Lamb

Date

Undated

Medium

Plaster, Paint

Dimensions

7 x 1.9 x 2.1 in.

Accession Number

2006.43

On View

Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 (Meta Fuller 4, Shelf 1)

Classification

Sculpture

Description

Standing man holding lamb with head titled, wearing robe and with beard and ear length hair. Lamb is right facing. Figure is barefoot. Head is broken off at shoulder. Man's hair is brown and robe is a mixture of brown and tan.

Accrual Method

Collection was gifted to the Danforth in 2006. Unfortunately they sat uncatalogued for close to 10 years. It took until an IMLS grant awarded in 2015 through 2016 for this collection to be catalogued and put into the collections database. - Rachel 2021 Came to us from Robert Fuller

Provenance

Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust Part of the Estate of Meta V. W. Fuller from 1968-2001. In the collection of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust, 2001-2006

Condition

Fair: Piece is in two sections. Head is broken off cleanly at shoulders. Large section broken off and missing from left facing base/pedestal. Head piece-chips on bottom of beard; abrasions around edge of hair and into hair; chip left facing edge at break. Body piece (Glue/darkening?) around break area. Abrasions on wrist and arm grasping lamb. Dots/abrasions on left facing cloak and right facing edge of cloak and center of main robe. Abrasions on back of upper arm right facing side of cloak. Abrasions on lamb's face and around perimeter of base.

Credit

Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust

Tombstone

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Christ Holding Lamb
Undated
Plaster, Paint
7 x 1.9 x 2.1 in.

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