Julian Daniel Taylor
Item
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Artist
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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Title
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Julian Daniel Taylor
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Date
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1935
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Medium
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Plaster, paint
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Dimensions
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34.6 x 23 x 4 in.
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Accession Number
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2006.34
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On View
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Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 Studio (on table)
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Classification
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Sculpture
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Description
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Gold painted plaster plaque in a wooden 'house' frame. Image on the plaster is a relief of a man in profile, seated facing right, He is an older man with short hair and is wearing robes. Around his head is text in Latin: "Tertiam Aetatem Hominum Videbat et ex Eivs Lingva Melle Dulcior Flvebat" and a name "Jvlian Daniel Taylor" with more text beneath that.
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Provenance
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Rodney Pattison
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Tombstone
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Julian Daniel Taylor
1935
Plaster, paint
34.6 x 23 x 4 in.
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References
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Julian Daniel Taylor (1846-1932) was a Latin professor for 62 years at Colby College, Waterville, ME, where two of Fuller's sons went to school. The senior class of 1935 commissioned the work to memorialize his contributions. The Latin inscription comes from Cicero quoting Homer, "speech sweeter than honey flowed from his tongue."
