Youth Eternal, (sculpture).

Youth Eternal, (sculpture).

Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, 1874-1954, sculptor.

Youth Eternal, (sculpture).

Childhood/The Long Islander, (sculpture)

Childhood, (sculpture).

Commissioned 1919. Executed 1920.

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Concrete on a concrete base with a bronze frog.

Sculpture: approx. 76 x 42 x 18 in.; Base: approx. 30 x 121 x 66 in. x Diam. 66 in.

(Plaque on front of base:) YOUTH ETERNAL/Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder signed

"Sitting on top of the base is a large bronze frog who has captivated the three very young children depicted. In the lateral center of the base there is a rounded organic mound on which the figures are perched. On the proper right, a very young girl kneels on her proper left knee and gazes at the frog. Next to her, on the center of the mound, there is an even younger standing girl folding her arms across her chest. She is being cradled by the arms of a kneeling young boy on the proper left."

Animal -- Amphibian -- Frog

Allegory -- Life -- Youth

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Windsor

Loomis Chaffee School, 3 Batchelder Road, In front of Richmond Art Center, Windsor, Connecticut 06095

Formerly in the collection of Batchelder, family of, Osterville, Massachusetts

This is a concrete copy of the original marble fountain commissioned by August Heckscher in 1919 for his Long Island estate. This copy was originally in the possession of the Batchelder family at their home in Osterville, MA. See IAS files for related collection catalog excerpt for the piece in the Heckscher Museum. Heckscher's grandchildren - Lionel, Virginia and Nancy Brett - apparently were the inspiration for the piece. The fountain was refurbished in June 1993.

Samu, Margaret, 2002.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

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