The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-05
FAMOUS SCULPTOR
TELLS OF STRUGGLE
Winner of Allison Memorial
Competition, of Iowa, Is
Beautiful Young Woman.

When the studio door opened a beau
tiful woman wearing the picturesque
sculptor's apron stood framed in the
doorway.
"a young girl" thought the reporter,
TT can't be the important sculptor,
probably a pupil"
But the beautiful young woman de-
clared:
Eyes, I'm Miss Evelyn Beatrice
Longman."
The reporter marvelled, for the wom-
III sculptor who has won the award
of the Allison Memorial commission,
probably the most important competi-
ton ever won by q wonlan in America,
looks as if she might just have escaped
from college at q rather tender age.
= 7But I didn't said Miss Longman;
II didn't go to college at all, l went
to work"
1t was in the latter part of october
that the jury appointed by the Allison
Memorial commission to decide the
competition for the monument to Will
liam Boyd Allison selected Miss Long
mans sketch as being the one most
worthy of erection in Des Moines as
a monument to the veteran senator.
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 1t had been announced, but when
she decided to try for it she gave up
every thing else so that her plaster
sketch might be finished in time.
Through all the hot weeks of late
July and August she toiled in her city
studio, and not until the huge model
was ready to be shipped to the Iowa
capital did she admit that leisure for
" a brief vacation had been won.
Miss Longman's model went into the
competition designated by a four leaf
clover, and in notifying the Allison
commission that the award had been
made to this model the official state
1nent of the jury was:
I'm giving the first place to -Four
Leaf Glover we were compelled to do
so by it's great artistic superiority over
all other work shown, and by the most
ingenious manner in which h differ
cnt qualifications of craftsmanship and
personal characteristics were depicted
allogorically. 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
commission; b. r.. 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 tor 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 has-relief, are allie
gorical figures representing the Vic
NJ tory, NFWDannAY n y 81 v k1@ syyiak1,,N - "a
knowledge" Above, upon the pedes-
tai, is a statue Of the Republic, laurel
crowned, and holding in her left hand
a staff surmounted by the American
eagle and in her right a sheathed
sword. knowledge carries aloft in one
hand q 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 n child and the agricplturist
CARRYING a sheaf OF wheat.
The monument is designed with q
water setting. The pedestal rests upon
tight of steps, in the top of which is
1rorze 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.
Miss Longman's career presents an
astonishing record of achievement for
q woman. She was born in Winches-
ter, Ohio, and when she was ia years
old circumstances made it necessary
Tor her to leave school and seek en-
ploynlelt for herself to tighten the
burden of her parents.
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 c~ilerishing the ambition to
MAKE name for herself in the future,
Il kind of lame that requires an edu-
cation OF one sort or another as a
foundation. Night work In the Chica-
sc Art Institute was tried. but proved
impossible in addition to the work OF
the day. and so the ambitious girl
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 am6itious work in the future.
In six years h had saved enough
moraay to so to Olivet college. and aft
er q short course there she returned to.
b Art Institute OF Chicago, where
she stayed fer two years, studying un-
der dorado Taft. and also taking les
sons In drawing and anatomy. Sha
then went to New York and worked
with Hermon a. McNeil and Isidcr
iKonti, which Quickly led to work in
the studios Of Daniel g. French, where
SHE remained for several years.
Among the most important 81 the
works which Miss Longman has COM
Plated are the bronze doors for the
chapel atsthe United States Naval
academy, at Annapolis, and those for
Wellesley college. the Storey memorial
and b John Stewart Kennedy mem
orial 9 the Charities building. In this
city. TheFMMVtctorys. which Miss Long
ma. made for the Varied Industries
building OF the st. Louis EXPOSITION
sacreated q sensation IN artistic circies.
because the sculptor chose us repre-
sent victory as q man. which was ufs
prscedented The Allison memorial
Will pc completed in two years.
nAnd 1T Will mean hard work 100
for those. tive years, said the prettv
sculptor IS the reporter departed.
Srrangs said the reporter. "wha+
hard worlfsonf heroic sculptures seems
to do torskafswoman's appearances. One
might almost lcok upon 1t as a beauty
The Quickest Way.
Apropossot the hatred Of the red nag
OF anArchNSthat the shooting sof Coi-
OneI Roosevelt aroused. MavoY
Clarence Carruth Of C6hoes said:
sSstA snewspaper correspondent, at the
tfme#of thec6lonets shooting. honned
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