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Industry, (sculpture). Artist:  Longman, Evelyn Beatrice, 1874-1954, sculptor. Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder. Title:  Industry, (sculpture). Dates:  1931. Relocated ca. 1965. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. x 38.5 in. x 54 in.; Base: approx. 44 x 70 x 86 in. Inscription:  (On rear of plinth, right corner:) Evelyn B. Longman/1931 (On rear of plinth, left corner:) Gorham Co. Founders (On base, front:) GIVEN IN HONOR OF/THE PIONEERS OF INDUSTRY/IN THE CITY OF HARTFORD/MEN WHOSE MEMORY IS REVERED/WHOSE INFLUENCE SURVIVES/TO INSPIRE/SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS (On base, north:) ENGINEERING (On base, east:) DESIGN (On base, south:) INVENTION signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  Full-length figure of a young man is seated on a chair intently reading a sheath of papers. The figure wears work clothes with his shirt sleeved rolled up. His proper right arm supports his head as he reads the material in his lap. There is a laboratory apron draped over the back of the chair and several machine pieces gathered around the chair legs. Subject:  Figure male -- Full length Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Engineering Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Industry Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Design Object -- Tool Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hartford Sculpture Owner:  State of Connecticut, A. I. Prince Regional Vocational-Technical School, 500 Brookfield Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Provenance:  Formerly located Hartford Trade School, Washington Street, Hartford, Connecticut 1931-ca. 1965. Remarks:  Commissioned for the Hartford Trade School, now the A. I. Prince Vocational Technical School, at its former location on Washington Street. The new school on Brookfield was built about 1965, and the sculpture was probably moved at the same time. For further reading see Catalogue for Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder Exhibition, April 24-June 15, 1993, The Richmond Art Center of the Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut. References:  Samu, Margaret, 2002. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. Rabetz, Marilyn & Walter, "Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder exhibition, April 24 to June 15, 1993," Windsor, CT: Richmond Art Center of the Loomis Chaffee School, 1993, pg. 20 and 32. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CT000355   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000355 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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