Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874-1954)
Head of Bacchante (Peggy or The Laughing Girl)
inscribed 'Evelyn Beatrice Longman 1912' (on the inside of the left shoulder) and inscribed 'PEGGY' (on the base)
bronze with verdigris patina
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high, on a 12 in. (30.5 cm.) black marble and verdigris patina bronze base
Footnotes:
Provenance
Conner • Rosenkranz, LLC, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 23, 1996.

Literature
'Exhibitions Now On: Women's Sculptures at Gorham's,' American Art News, New York, May 10, 1913, vol. XI, no. 30, p. 2, another example listed. (as Peggy)
Department of Fine Arts, Official Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, 1915, p. 75, no. 4049, another example listed. (as Head of Bacchante)
'American Sculpture: Many Women Represented at the Boston Exhibit,' Springfield Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, October 31, 1915, Second Section, p. 10, another example listed. (as Peggy)
'What is Going on in Artist Country Colonies: The Stockbridge Exhibition,' American Art News, New York, September 16, 1916, vol. XIV, no. 38, p. 2, another example listed. (as Peggy)
A. Adams, 'Evelyn Beatrice Longman,' The American Magazine of Art, New York, May 1928, vol. XIX, no. 5, pp. 237, 239, another example illustrated. (as Peggy)
The National Sculpture Society, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Contemporary American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, 1929, pp. 209, 211, another example illustrated. (as Peggy)
B.G. Proske, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968, p. 134, another example listed. (as Bacchante Head)
M.B. Rennolds, edt., L. Bostelman, J. Michael, H. Maxwell, A.I.M. Radice, A. Comini, W.&W. Holladay, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York, 1987, pp. 58-59, 252, another example illustrated. (as Bacchante Head (or Peggy))
M. Rabetz, W. Rabetz, Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder Exhibition, Windsor, Connecticut, 1993, pp. 11, 21, 37-38, 41, fig. 1, another example illustrated. (as Peggy, Head of Bacchante (Margaret French Cresson))

Other examples of Head of Bacchante (Peggy or The Laughing Girl) are found in the collections of the Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts (as Peggy (Bacchante)), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (as Peggy (Head of Bacchante; The Laughing Girl)), Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

The present work is modeled after Margaret French Cresson (1899-1973), daughter of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) and was modeled during her time working in French's studio as an assistant.