Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, 1874-1954

LC control no.	no2005086486
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, 1874-1954 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Longman, Mary Evelyn Beatrice, 1874-1954 Batchelder, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, 1874-1954 Batchelder, E. B. L., 1874-1954 Batchelder, Nathaniel Horton, Mrs., 1874-1954
Other standard no.	Q431475
Located	Olivet (Mich.) Chicago (Ill.) New York (N.Y.) Windsor (Conn.)
Birth date	1874-11-21
Death date	1954-03-10
Place of birth	Winchester (Ohio)
Place of death	Osterville (Mass.)
Field of activity	Sculpture Decoration and ornament, Architectural Monuments Medals
Affiliation	Olivet College Art Institute of Chicago Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) United States Naval Academy American Telephone and Telegraph Company Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.) Loomis Institute National Academy of Design (U.S. : 1828-1997)
Profession or occupation	Artists Sculptors Medalists
Found in	Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder Exhibition, c1993: p. 15 (Evelyn Longman; Evelyn Beatrice Longman) p. 38, etc. (Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder; (Mary) Evelyn Beatrice Longman; b. 1874, Winchester, Ohio; d. Mar. 10, 1954, Osterville, Mass.) Who was who in Amer. art, 1999 (Longman, Evelyn Beatrice (Mary Evelyn Beatrice); sculptor; b. 1874, Winchester, Ohio; d. 1954, Osterville, Mass.) Buehrmann, Elizabeth. Photographic portraits of artists, writers, musicians, arts administrators and patrons of the arts, ca. 1904-1917, and photographic illustrations and accompanying tearsheets for magazine and newspaper advertisements, ca. 1917-1921, 1904-1921: photograph, viewed in New York Public Library Digital Collections, December 10, 2020 (inscribed/stamped on verso of photograph: "Subject: Miss Evelyn Longman, sculptor. Made the bronze doors of the chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy. Taught children's class at Chicago Art Institue. Locale: In Miss Longman's New York Studio") <https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/32ef3640-7f92-0135-f84f-01ec76ed258e> Gördüren, Petra. "Longman, Evelyn Beatrice," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, December 10, 2020 (Artist ID: _00115187; Thieme-Becker name: Longman, Evelyn Beatrice; further names: Longman, Mary Evelyn Beatrice; Longman, Evelyn Beatrice; Batchelder, Evelyn Beatrice; Batchelder, Nathaniel Horton (Mistress [i.e. Mrs.]); gender: female; occupation: sculptor; place and date of birth: Winchester (Ohio), 1874.11.21; place and date of death: Osterville (Massachusetts), 1954.03.10; studied at Olivet College (Michigan) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1889-1900); moved to New York, 1901, and worked with Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Isidore Konti on decorations for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; assistant to Daniel Chester French, who encouraged her to start her own studio; silver medal winner for "Victory" at the St. Louis World's Fair; created bronze doors for the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis; often collaborated with the architect Henry Bacon; created "Genius of Electricity" for the AT&T building in New York, 1914-1915; moved to Windsor (Conn.) in 1920; portrait bust of Thomas Alva Edison, 1952-1953 (Washington D.C., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)) Thieme-Becker, v. 23, 1929, via Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, December 10, 2020 (Longman, Evelyn Beatrice; married name Batchelder; American sculptor, born 21.11.1874 in Winchester (Ohio); active in New York and Windsor (Conn.)) Samu, Margaret. "Longman, Evelyn Beatrice," in Grove Art Online, published online 27 October 2011, accessed via Oxford Art Online, December 10, 2020 (Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, born Winchester, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1874; died Osterville, Mass., March 10, 1954; American sculptor; first woman sculptor to become a full member of the National Academy of Design (1919); contributed decorative elements including wreaths, eagles and lettering to the Lincoln Memorial (1914-1922) in Washington, D.C.; designed Peabody Medal (1925); married Nathaniel Batchelder, 1920, and established a studio on the campus of Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Conn., where her husband was headmaster) "Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, also appears as E.B.L. Batchleder [sic] and Mrs Nathaniel Batchelder," in Bénézit dictionary of artists, published online 31 October 2011; accessed via Oxford Art Online, December 10, 2020 ("Longman married Nathaniel Horton Batchelder in 1920 and some of her work appears under her married name")
Associated language	eng