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Vinnie Ream - Wikipedia Lavinia Ellen "Vinnie" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor Her most famous work is the statue of U S President Abraham Lincoln in the United States Capitol rotunda [1]
Vinnie Ream - Architect of the Capitol In 1866, at the age of 18, Vinnie Ream was selected by the U S Congress to sculpt a memorial statue of President Abraham Lincoln This made her the first female artist commissioned to create a work of art for the United States government
Vinnie Ream | 19th Century American Sculptor Artist | Britannica Vinnie Ream (born September 25, 1847, Madison, Wisconsin, U S —died November 20, 1914, Washington, D C ) was an American sculptor, who is best remembered for her sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D C
Vinnie Ream - Smithsonian American Art Museum The American sculptor Vinnie Ream (1847-1914) and George Healy met in Rome in the early 1870s when Ream visited Italy to oversee the carving of her full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln for the U S Capitol Building
Ream, Vinnie (1847–1914) - Encyclopedia. com Vinnie Ream's career paralleled the rise of Western interests on the American political scene As a teenaged artist, she pioneered in the undeveloped field of American sculpture, in which she did creditable work and progressed with experience
Vinnie Ream and a Senate Debate - U. S. Capitol Visitor Center Sculpted by Vinnie Ream, the first female artist commissioned to create a work of art for the U S government Ream’s commission of this statue was at the center of a Senate debate in 1866
Vinnie Ream - SHSMO Historic Missourians To support her family, Vinnie began working at the post office for $50 a month Despite her lifelong dreams of becoming an artist, and specifically a sculptor, Vinnie had never seen real statues She only read about sculpture and looked at pictures of statues in books
Emerging Civil War Though Sens Charles Sumner and Jacob Howard vehemently objected, Ream was ultimately awarded the commission in July 1866 – the first woman to ever receive a federal commission for a work of art, and the youngest person to ever receive such a commission
Vinnie Ream | Missouri Remembers With this sculpture, she became the first female artist commissioned to create a work of art for the U S government This project led to controversy, as she was criticized for her gender, youth and beauty