Working model for the bronze counterpart. Depicts the neck and head of a dynamic and timeless woman, Athena. She is helmeted and crowned with springs of laurel branches, embodying an overall sense of triumph.
(1874-1954)
Evelyn Beatrice Longman was originally from rural Ohio, where her family farmed. She attended the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The magnificence of the sculpture on display inspired her to study sculpture. She started out in Michigan in 1896 at Olivert College and returned to Chicago in 1892 to study with Lorado Taft at the Art Institute. She moved to New York in 1901 to work as an assistant to Daniel Chester French.
Many of her works are allegorical figures.