He used women assistants while creating sculpture for many of the Exposition buildings such as Horticulture Hall. Taft had been the Chicago Exposition’s Superintendent of Sculpture. In 1898 she enrolled in the sculpture school conducted by Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago. She became determined to become a sculptor herself. With savings from her job, she traveled to Chicago in 1893 to visit the World’s Columbian Exposition and was enthralled by the all the sculpture she saw. She left school and farm life at the age of 14 to work in a dry goods store.
Longman was born on a farm in Winchester, Ohio. She successfully practiced her art creating both public and private commissions for 50 years. French is arguably America’s greatest sculptor and Longman worked with him without being lost in his shadow. Longman may not be as well known as Anne Whitney, Theodora Kitson or Anna Hyatt Huntington but she did work next to Daniel Chester French.
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Research by Dana Pilson, a Curatorial Assistant at Chesterwood (the home and studio of Daniel Chester French which is operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation) has shed more light on Longman, who worked in a time when it was unusual for a woman to be a professional sculptor. A larger-than-life relief of an angel carved in a single shaft of pink Tennessee marble, it sits under a stand of hemlock trees on Rhododendron Path off Poplar Avenue. The sculpture that she worked on is the Slocum Monument. It will compete directly with Spectrum, the only current cable provider in Fayette County.įinally, council also approved a road swap agreement with the state that transfers maintenance responsibility for more than 30 lane-miles in the Lexington area and could clear the way for demolition of the Jefferson Viaduct as part of major park and convention center projects.There are several sculptures by Daniel Chester French at Forest Hills Cemetery but one is actually largely the work of his only woman assistant, his protégé Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874 -1954). Mayor Jim Gray says that should occur within the next few months.Ĭouncil also gave unanimous approval to a ten year telecommunications franchise that clears the way for Indiana-based MetroNet to begin building a high speed fiber optic network. “Then the planning commission will take it up and probably try to get it adopted before the end of that year and have things in place to address potential growth outside the urban service area, if we need to,” said Duncan.Ĭouncil also took action on an agreement with the Lexington Cemetery that clears the way for moving the John Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan statues to the historic graveyard. Planning Director Jim Duncan says that work will be done by the middle of 2020. The Council action means the boundary will stay as is for now, but passage of an amendment paves the way for quicker work on a comp plan study.
Lexington’s council has given final approval to a plan to move two statues depicting two Confederate generals to the Lexington Cemetery.Ī busy agenda Thursday night also included a final vote to maintain the current urban services boundary.
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