Portrait Bust of Doris

Title: Portrait Bust of Doris
Date: 1925
Medium: Plaster, Paint
Dimensions: 18.25 x 7.4 x 7.4 in.
Accession Number: 2006.322
On View: Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 (Meta Fuller 4, Shelf 3)
Classification: Sculpture
Description: Portrait bust of young woman resting on a squared base. Base painted black, bust metallic gold.
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 Pat West. From photographs in Eph1.39 photo book this is either a bust of a woman named Alberta or Doris. Photos have become loose from pages so unclear which bust belongs to which woman. Doris confirmed from family photo negatives loaned to the Danforth in 2021.
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: Good: Face is intact except for accretion of plaster on subject's upper lip right eye lid and chin; some flaking on top and back of head and back and left of bust; bass has numerous chips on bottom, especially back; apparent unpainted patch of hair line on back left of bust.
Credit: Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust