Statue of Frances Willard explained

Frances Willard
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Artist:Helen Farnsworth Mears
Subject:Frances Willard
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City:Washington, D.C., United States

Frances E. Willard is a marble sculpture depicting the American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist of the same name by Helen Farnsworth Mears, installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Illinois in 1905, making Willard the first woman to be honored in the Collection.[1]

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  1. Web site: Frances E. Willard. Architect of the Capitol. May 3, 2018. May 1, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200501080703/https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/frances-e-willard. live.