Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-12-06
FAMOUS SCULPTOR
TELLS OF STRUGGLE
Winner Of Allison Memorial
Competition, Of Iowa, liz
Beautiful Young Woman.

When The studio dopr oreuad y beau
''iul Nonlan wearing the picturesque
sculptor apron too fran3.a in tie
doorway.
"A Young girl. thoorh, the topor,sr
1T cant he the important segip,of,
probably . pupil
clarcd:
Yes, I'm Misr Evelyn neatrles
Longman."
The reporter mar9eiiea FOR the wom-
an sculptor who haH won the aaard
of the Allison Memorial commission,
probably The most important cr!npnti-
ZION ever Won By ii woman in America,
looks as If she might just have escaped
from college at q rather tender age.
Blu ! didn't. said MICS Loneman.
j dldn t 90 TO college ~ all, ! went
to work.
1t was in the latter par, of october
That the jury appointed ~ the Allison
Memorial commission TO decide the
competition for the monument to WI
liam BOYD Allison selectcd Miss Long
mans sketch as being the one most
worthy Of erection in Des Moines as
q monument to the veteran senator
Some Of the most successful sculptors
of the country. the majority of whom
We're men. had entered the competition.
Miss Longman entered several weeks
after it had been announced. but when
she decided TO try for it she gave up
every thing else 50 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 tina leisure for
a briet vacation had been won.
Miss Lonsrnan's model Went into the
competition designated by a four leaf
commission that the award had been
made to this model the official tate
mont of the jury was:
I'm giving the first place to -Four
Leaf Glover we were compelled to do
so by its great artistic superiority over
all other work shown. and by the most
ingenious manner in which the differ
ent qualifications of craftsmanship and
personal characteristics We're 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: f. l.. Mar
query. of ST. Paul, Mimi: General
commission: b. +. Carroll. governor
of Iowa. and f. r. Harlan. curator of
the Historical Department of Iowa.
In her model for the 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. h has
conceived these ideals to be Peace and
Knowledge. and on either side OF the
pedestal on which Genator Allisons
portrait appears In bas-relief. are allie
gorical figures representing h Vic
tory of Peace and the Victory OF
Knowledge" Above. upon the pedes-
tai. is a statue of the Republic. laurel
crowned. and holding in her left hand
eagle and in her right a sheathed
sword. knowledge carries aloft in ~
hand a torch, in the other Il 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
carrying Il sheaf of wheat.
The monument is designed with i
water setting. The pedestal rests npo
: eight of steps. i'm the top OF which is
bronze inlay OF water flowers. from
the center of which the water is de
signed to bubble quietly and flow down
the steps and fan into the basin be-
low.
Miss Iongmam's career presents an
astonishing record of achievement for
Il Oma She WAS born IN WtncheS-
ter, Ohio. and when she II II Years
old circumstances made IL necessary
for her to leave school and seek cn-
plovmcnt for herself to tighten the
burden of her parents.
She went to Chicago. where SHE pro
cured employment In II large business
establishment. and for six wears she
tOilcd faithfully MT hun,drtln tasks. all
the while chcrisilinH the ambition to
make Il name for herself In the future,
tho kind Of mime thnt rcu,iirca an cdn
cation of one aort ~ another an a
foundation. Night work la the ,'hicas
go Art Institute wax tried. bat proved
impossible In addition to the work of
the day. and so the ambitious si'l
settled down to her office routine fer
the day ind to saving all that she
could from her small a,ia,y u" that
she could obtain il training fnt some
more ambitious work In the Iutlre,
In six wears alle had saved enough
mOf.ey To ~ 10 plivrt college. aud att
or u short course there site ietu,t,ra I"
the Art INSTITUTES Ut Chicago. Where
she stayed for tw" Netta, atudN mas nn
der dorado Taft. and also taking les
SOM In drawing and anatomy Slte
then went 10 New Work. aud Worked
with Ii.ilnon A, Mcneil aud iAidu,
konti. which untcisiy led To- work III
the sl,,Gios at Daniel a French, where
she remained fui teNethl Neais,
Among the n,nst Important al tho
works which Miss %l-unstian has N,an
pirtrd are the ,tonse dunta fur the
chapel ~ the United Hates Naval
academy. AZ Annapolis, aud th"hi i''
Wellesley ooiiefe. tins it"reN ,lennwiil
aud the .toiin staWart ken,letN ,nen,
0fint for the charities building, In tiis
city. I'll. Victory" which Stisa ,4uns
man made tnr the Varied intust,ivs
building 1T tbs ~, t,o,,is esi",sltir"
oranted u sensattun IN artistic ~,i.utas,
because the s%n,ttptar chose ia ,ei''e
sent victory an u mah Wh'eh was u",