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Torso of a Woman

Founder Cast by Roman Bronze Works
1911
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Longman executed “Torso of a Woman” as a companion piece to “Seated Female Figure” (27.21.4). The tilting truncated figure seated solidly on a rocklike form has a distinguished artistic lineage. By deliberately choosing to render an incomplete figure, Longman joined a corps of turn-of-the-twentieth-century artists, most notably French sculptor Auguste Rodin, who relied on the part to imply the whole.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Torso of a Woman
  • Artist: Evelyn Beatrice Longman (American, Winchester, Ohio 1874–1954 Osterville, Massachusetts)
  • Founder: Cast by Roman Bronze Works
  • Date: 1911
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Bronze
  • Dimensions: 12 x 4 x 4 1/2 in. (30.5 x 10.2 x 11.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912
  • Object Number: 12.52
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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