Evelyn Beatrice Longman

Θέση: Winchester

Γεννημένος: 1874

Θάνατος: 1954

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman was an American sculptor born on November 21, 1874, in Winchester, Ohio. She was inspired to study sculpture after visiting the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Longman studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft from 1898 to 1900. She then moved to New York, where she worked with Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Isadore Konti on sculptural decorations for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. In 1900, Longman presented herself to Daniel Chester French at his studio, becoming his only female studio assistant. Thanks to French's assistance, she had a long and successful career. Longman's allegorical figure works were commissioned as monuments, memorials, adornments for public buildings, and attractions at early 20th-century art expositions. She became the first woman sculptor to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1919. Evelyn Beatrice Longman died on March 10, 1954, in Osterville, Massachusetts.