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The Light Within:
The sculpture this painting is based on is The Woman of Samarta, by William Henry Rinehart, one of America's finest neoclassic sculptors. He was born a Frederick County farm boy. Rinehart based this piece on the Biblical story of a Samaritan woman who met a tired, thirsty Jesus at a well. She offered him water, he offered her "living water." They were enemies by race and religion, and she was thought inferior by gender and reputation. Yet at that well, those two people found some common ground. The Light Within expresses the idea found in many community responses of the intrinsic worth of every individual, regardless of superficial differences. |