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Frances Murphy Goodwin (1855–1929)[1] was born in Newcastle, Indiana[2] to one of the city's oldest families.[3] Both she and her sister, Helen Goodwin, were well known in Indiana artist circles.[2] Goodwin briefly attended The Indiana Art School before moving to the Art Institute of Chicago to study painting.[4] She soon discovered her love for sculpting and eventually worked as a student under the sculptor Lorado Taft while at Chicago.[3] She also studied sculpture at the Art Student's League in New York City with the sculptor Daniel Chester French.[1] Goodwin eventually traveled and studied art around Europe for four and a half years[4] and set up a studio in Paris with her sister.[3] She died in Newcastle at the age of seventy-four.[2] 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.[3]

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