Study for "Victory"

Arts of the Americas

Modeled 1903; cast 1906

Evelyn Beatrice Longman (American, 1874–1954)
Cast by Jules Berchem (American, born France, 1855–1930)
American Art Bronze Foundry (American, founded 1886)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Title: Study for "Victory"
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1903
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed left, on base bottom-middle, in cast: "E B LONGMAN Sc. 1903". Inscribed recto, on base bottom-middle, in cast: "PRESENTED AND / ▽CAST IN BRONZE BY JULES BERCHEM CHICAGO▽"; inscribed recto, on base right-middle, etched: "987".
Dimensions: 125.8 × 50.6 × 37.4 cm (49 9/16 × 19 15/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Reference Number: 1906.128

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1905), cat. 393 [plaster cast].
Mark D. Mitchell, et al., The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, exh. cat. (Yale University Art Gallery, 2024), 244–45, cat. 94 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Oct. 19-Nov. 26, 1905, cat. [plaster cast].
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917, Sept. 6, 2024–Jan. 5, 2025, cat. 94.

The artist; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1905 [Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, 52]; cast by Jules Berchem for the Art Institute of Chicago, 1906.

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