Frances Willard | |
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The statue in 2009 | |
Artist | Helen Farnsworth Mears |
Subject | Frances Willard |
Location | 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, created by Helen Farnsworth Mears and 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 given by the U.S. state of Illinois in 1905, making Willard the first woman to be honored in the Collection. [1]