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Eva McDonald Valesh 1866 ~ 1954
Eva McDonald Valesh
Has recently come into prominence
through the execution of work for Wellesley College. She has
already done some of the handsomest bronze work in this country.
Her work for Wellesley is a set of bronze doors and transoms for
the Wellesley Library Building, in memory of the late Professor
Eben Norton Horsford, who died in 1893.
Miss Longman's education was acquired entirely in America,
chiefly at the Chicago Art Institute. Most of her works have
been portrait busts and works of a similar nature. Three years
ago, however, she made her first bronze doors, and the
circumstances surrounding her first selection for her first
commission, placed her at once as the most successful young
woman worker in bronze in America.
This commission, she received through
competition held for a pair of bronze doors and a transom for
the entrance to the chapel at the United States Naval Academy,
at Annapolis. It was open to all American sculptors and
conducted under the auspices of the National Sculpture Society.
A jury of five men was selected to pick the winning design. The
identity of the competitors was kept strictly a secret and the
judges had no means of knowing whose work they were considering.
Miss Longman won the award by unanimous
decision on the first vote, over thirty-seven competitors. She
is rapidly forging to the front as an artist in bronze. She is a
member of the American Numismatic Society, the American
Federation of Arts, and the National Sculpture Society, and is
one of the few women associates of the National Academy of
Design.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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