Evelyn Longman

Artist Details

• First Name Evelyn
• Middle Name Beatrice
• Maiden Name Longman
• Alternate Name(s) Mary Evelyn Beatrice Longman EB Longman
• Surname Longman
• Spouse’s Full Name Nathaniel Horton Batchelder; headmaster of Loomis Chaffee School, Connecticut; married 1920
• Birth Date November 21, 1874
• Birth Place Winchester, Ohio
• Death Date 1954
• Death Place Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• Residence(s) ?- circa 1940: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1901-?: New York, New York
  
  1920-?: Connecticut
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  New York, New York
• Studio Location(s) Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1905-?: New York, New York
• Categories Sculptor
• Training 1893-1894: Olivet College, Michigan
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1901-?: student of Hermon Atkins MacNeil and of Daniel Chester French, New York, New York
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1899, 1900: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1900: 4th Annual Society of Western Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, Missouri; Victory
  
  1904: Architectural League, New York, New York
  
  1904, 1905, 1919: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1905-1919:  Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (4 times)
  
  1912, 1918: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1918: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
• Collections Eagle's Nest, Oregon Illinois, Library Gallery
  
  Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut
• Publications Samu, Margaret. "Evelyn Beatrice Longman: Establishing a Career in Public Sculpture," Woman's Art Journal, 25.2 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005) Todd, Ellen Wiley. "Remembering the Unknowns: The Longman Memorial and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire." American Art, 23.3 (Fall 2009)
• Memberships National Academy of Design, first woman sculptor elected full member 1919
• Awards circa 1911: Commission: Triangle Fire Memorial to the Unknown
  
  1904: Silver Medal for Victory at Louisiana Purchase Exposition; mounted on top of Festival Hall
  
  1915: Commission from AT&T for Genius in Electricity
  
  1920: Gold medal, National Academy of Design exhibition
  
  1923: Watrous Gold Medal
  
  1994: inducted into Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
• Other Occupation(s) at age 14, working in a dry goods store in Chicago, Illinois
  
  assistant to Lorado Taft
  
  1902-1905: assistant to Chester French (only female assistant)
• Website(s) page on Wikipedia
  
   
• Biography parents:  Edwin Henry and Clara Delitia Adman Longman