Minneapolis Institute of Art
Putto on Seahorse
Evelyn Beatrice LongmanLinkedCulture matchlcp-75e0ec3114e2
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- Bronze
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 120409
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Evelyn Beatrice Longman was the first female sculptor to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in New York in 1919. During her lifetime she was famous for having made the second-largest sculpture in New York (after the Statue of Liberty), and having carved parts of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In Putto on Seahorse she formulates her answer to Andrea del Verrocchio’s Putto with a Dolphin from the Italian Renaissance, of which plaster casts and bronze copies were plentiful in America at the time. Longman replaced Verrocchio’s slippery dolphin with a seahorse and skillfully depicted the boy grinning mischievously as he manages to dominate the surprised creature. United States, Americas
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- Gift of Susan and David Plimpton in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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