The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-05
FAMOUS SCULPTOR
TELLS or STRUGGLE
Winner Of Allison Memorial
Competition, Of Iowa, Is
Beautiful Young Woman.

Beautiful Young Woman.
when the studio door opened a beau
tiful woman wearing the picturesque
s~culptor's apron stood framed In thu
doorway.
"a young girl" thought the reporter
'It can't be the important sculptor
probably a pupil" ....E
But the beautiful young woman de-
clared:
Eyes, I'm Miss Evelyn Beatrice
VI Longman." s. 49,.
The reporter marvelled, for the WON.
an sculptor who has won the aware
of the Allison Memorial commission
probably the most important competl
tion ever won by q woman in America
looks as if she might just have escaped
from college at a rather tender age.
"But I didn't" said Miss Longman;
II didn't. go to college at ALL l "en'
TO work"
IT was in the latter part Of October
that the jury appointed by the Allison
Memorial commission to decide the
competition for tbs monume 10 WIZ
liam BOYD Allison selected Miss Long
mans sketch as being h one mos'
worthy of erection in Des Moines as
a 10 TIC NSASldh
Some of the most successful sculptors
Of the country, the majority OF whom
were men, had entered the competition
Miss Longman entered several weeks
after ii had been announced, but When
she decided to try for It she gave VI
every thing else go that her plaster
sketch might be finished in time.
Through all the hot weeks OF late
July and August she toiled n her CITY
g- L. ~ /. "a nnk ,anfS1 tho lingo mode
was ready to be shipped to the Iowa
capital did she admit that leisure Tor
a brief vacation had been won.
Miss Longmau's model went into the
competition designated by a four lear
clover, and in notifying the Allison
commission that the award had been
made to this model the official state
ment of the jury was:
'.In giving the first place to -Four
Leaf Clover we were compelled to do
so by its great artistic superiority Owe
ali other work shown, and by the most
ingenious ann in which the differ
ent qualifications Of craftsmanship and
personal characteristics were depicted
allegorically, the highest form of plas-
tic description, together with the rare
charm that goes to make up a work
OF distinction" !.
The Jury Included Messrs. Charles
Crafty, of Philadelphia; E. L. Mar
query, of st. Paul, Mimi; General
Grenville M. Dodge, chairman of the
commission; b. +. Carroll, governor
Of Iowa. and T.. r. Harlan, curator OF
the Historical Department of Iowa.
In her model for the monument Miss
Longman has sought to give full ex-
preston to the civic ideals for which
Senator Allison stood throughout his
long career as a statesman. She has
conceived these ideals to be Peace and
knowledge, and on either side Of the
pedestal on which Senator Allison's
portrait appears in bas-relief, are allie
gorical figures representing the Vic
tory of Peace and the f'Vietory Of
Knowledge" Above, upon the pedes-
tai, is a statue of the Republic, laurel
crowned, and holding in her left hand
o star s~urmounted by the American
eagle and In her right a sheathed
sword. knowledge carries aloft in one
hand a torch, in the other a sphere,
symbol of the universe. This figure is
followed by Legislature and Financial
Prosperity. On the other side Peace,
with her symbol, the Palm, leads for
ward Humanity, represented by. the
mother and child and the agriculturist
carryingA sheaf of wheat.
tMhe monument is designed with a.
water setting. The pedestal rests upon
II light of, steps, in the top of which is
5ronze inlay Of water flowers, from
the center Of which the water is de-
signed to bubble quietly and flow down
the steps and fall into the basin be-
low. ,H.... .
Miss Longman's career presents an
astonishing record of achievement for
q Oma She was born in Winches-
ter, Ohio, and when she was IA years
old circumstances made it necessary
for her to leave school and seek en-
ployment for herself to tighten the
burden of her parents. d..
she went to Chicago, where she pro-
cured employment in a large business
establishment, and for six years she
toiled faithfully at humdrum tasks, all
the while. cherishing the ambition to
make q name for herself In the future,
the kind Of name that requires an edu-
cation Of one sort or another as q
foundation, Night work in the Chica-
30 Art Institute was tried. but proved
Impossible In addition to the work OF
settled down to her office routine for
the day and to saving all that she
could from her small salary so that
she could obtain a training for some
more ambitious work in the future.
In six years she had saved enough
mor.ey to go to, olivet college, and aft
er a short course there she returned to
AbG ~ 1At5IlIuLG VI SIllEdBD, "uAT6
she stayed for two years, studying I'M
der dorado Taft, and also taking les
sons in drawing and anatomy. Sh1
then went TO New York and worked
with Hermon A. Mcneil and Isidor
Konti, which quickly led to work in
the studios of Daniel G. French, where
she remained for several years.
Among the most important of the
works which Miss Longman has COM
pleted are the bronze doors for the
chapel at the United States Naval
academy, at Annapolis, and those for
Wellesley college, the Storey memorial
and the John Stewart Kennedy mem
orial for the Charities building, in this
city, The Victory" which Miss Long
man made for the Varied Industries
building of the st. Louis exposition
created a sensation In" artistic circles,
because the sculptor chose to repre-
sent victory az a man, which was I'M
precedented. The Allison memorial
will be completed in two years.
And 1t will mean hard work. too.
for those two years." said the pretty
sculptor IS the reporter departed.
Strange" said the reporter, what
hard work on heroic sculptures seems
to do for a woman's appearance. One
might almost look upon it as a beauty
bath Il
e., Ea The Quickest Way,