Foundry mark on the southwest side of the statue "Aspiration and Literature", one of two statues that make up the work "The Arts of Peace". "The Arts of Peace" are statues which adorn either side of the southern entrance of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in Washington, D.C., in the United States. They were designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser, and erected in 1951. The two statues are bronze, covered in fire-gilded gold. The A. Bruni Foundry in Rome, Italy, both cast and gilded "Aspiration and Literature".