page_title: Evelyn Beatrice Longman
section_title: Major works
hierarchical_section_title: Evelyn Beatrice Longman / Major works
caption_attribution_description: English: monument to Sen. William Allison in Des Moins Iowa crated in 1916
context_page_description: Evelyn Beatrice Longman was a sculptor in the U.S. Her allegorical figure works were commissioned as monuments and memorials, adornment for public buildings, and attractions at art expositions in early 20th-century America. She was the first woman sculptor to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1919.
context_section_description: Victory (1904), commissioned for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis.
  Great Bronze Memorial (1909) chapel doors at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis.
  Allegorical sculpture for the Foster Mausoleum and bronze bas-relief for Timothy Murphy memorial, Upper Middleburgh Cemetery, Middleburgh, New York
  Horsford doors (1910), the front entrance of Clapp Library at Wellesley College.
  Wreaths, eagles and inscriptions (1914) on the inner walls of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
  Aenigma, bust of German actress Kate Parsenow.
  Genius of Electricity (1915), later known as Electricity and The Spirit of Communication or simply Spirit of Communication, commissioned for the top of the AT&T skyscraper in New York City, later relocated to Bedminster, NJ. It stood in the lobby AT&T's downtown Dallas, TX headquarters until 2019 when it was removed for a reimagining of the lobby to reflect the changing nature of AT&T to a media company after the acquisition of Warner Brothers, now Warner Media, a subsidiary of AT&T.  It will be re-installed in the completed AT&T Discovery District in April 2020.
  Fountain of Ceres (1915) in the Court of the Four Seasons at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco.
  L'Amour (1915) in the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco.
  Senator Allison Monument (1916) Des Moines, Iowa.
  Illinois Centennial Monument (1918), Chicago, IL.
  Spirit of Victory (1926), Spanish–American War Memorial in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut. 
  Victory of Mercy (1947), Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT. 
  Edison (1952), 12.5 foot bronze portrait bust of Thomas Alva Edison in Washington D.C. at the Naval Research Laboratory.
caption: Sen. William Boyd Allison Monument (1916), Des Moines, Iowa.
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