each member of the Association and a reproduction of Goodwin's memorial bust. The Association gave a bound volume of the report to the Indiana State Library for future reference. Artist Frances Murphy Goodwin (1855–1929) was born in Newcastle, Indiana, and was a member of one of the city's oldest families. Goodwin and her sister, Helen, were well known in Indiana artist circles. Goodwin briefly attended The Indiana Art School before moving to the Art Institute of Chicago to study painting. At Chicago she discovered her love for sculpting and eventually worked as a student under the sculptor Lorado Taft. Goodwin also studied sculpture at the Art Student's League in New York City with the sculptor Daniel Chester French. Goodwin eventually traveled in Europe, where she studied art for four and a half years, and established an art studio in Paris with her sister. Goodwin died at Newcastle at the age of seventy-four. A year later, in 1930, the Henry County Historical Society planned to commission a memorial for their grounds dedicated to Frances Goodwin and modeled after a bird fountain she had created at the Newcastle Public Library. Art career Frances Goodwin's first commission was for Education, a sculpture displayed in the Indiana building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and earned an honorable mention for the work. The sculpture was later installed in the Office of the Governor of Indiana. Goodwin's other works include a marble statue of Schuyler Colfax in the Senate gallery at the U.S. Capitol and a bronze memorial of Captain Everet Benjamin in New York. Her busts of Newcastle poet, Benjamin S. Parker, and Indianapolis rector, Reverend James D. Stanley, displayed at the Historical Society of Henry County and the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. Goodwin also sculpted many studies of baby hands, which were popular with the public. After living in Paris for a few years, she returned to the United States, when she won the competition for the commission of the Robert Dale Owen Memorial. Goodwin opened a temporary studio in Indianapolis, where she created the clay mold of the future artwork; however, she returned to Paris to cast the final bronze bust. See also Frances Elizabeth Willard Hendricks Monument Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs Untitled (Mueller) George Washington (bust by Houdon) External links View more photos of this and other public art at the Indiana Statehouse on Flickr Indiana Statehouse