Vinnie Ream
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Territory of Wisconsin, U.S. | |
Died | November 20, 1914 , U.S. | (aged 67)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Sculpture |
Spouse |
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] Ream's Statue of Sequoyah and Statue of Samuel J. Kirkwood, both part of the National Statuary Hall collection. Other notable works by Ream include the Statue of David Farragut and the Bust of Edwin B. Hay, which are also both located in Washington, D.C. Additionally, Ream created works which were displayed at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
After the
Early life
Lavinia Ellen Ream was born September 25, 1847, in
Career
In 1861, her family moved to
In 1863, James S. Rollins introduced Ream to sculptor Clark Mills.[9] She became an apprentice in Mills's sculpting studio the next year, at the age of seventeen.[6] In 1864, President Lincoln agreed to model for her in the morning for five months, and she created a bust of his figure.[4] During this time, Ream also began intense public relations efforts, selling photographs of herself and soliciting newspaper attention as a marketing strategy.[6]
Ream was the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission as an artist from the U.S. government for a statue.[10] She was awarded the commission for the full-size Carrara marble statue of Lincoln by a vote of Congress on July 28, 1866, when she was 18 years old.[11] She had used her previous bust of Lincoln as her entry into the selection contest for the full-size sculpture. There was significant debate over her selection as the sculptor, however, because of concern over her inexperience and the slanderous accusations that she was a "lobbyist", or a public woman of questionable reputation. She was known for her beauty and her conversational skills, which likely contributed to these accusations.[6] She worked in a studio in Room A of the basement of the Capitol.[12]
Senator
Once the U.S. government had approved the plaster model, Ream traveled to Paris, Munich, Florence, then Rome, to produce a finished marble figure.[4][6] She studied with Léon Bonnat in Paris, also producing busts of Gustave Doré, Père Hyacynthe, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Antonelli.[20] Her studio in Rome was at 45 Via de San Basile.[21] She met Georg Brandes at that time.[22][23] While in Rome, she faced controversial rumors that claimed that it was the Italian workmen and not Ream who were responsible for her successful sculpture of Lincoln.[6]
When the statue was complete, Ream returned to Washington. On January 25, 1871, her white marble statue of United States President Abraham Lincoln was unveiled in the United States Capitol rotunda, when Ream was only 23 years old.[26] She later opened a studio at 704 Broadway, New York City.[27] In 1871, she exhibited at the American Institute Fair.[28][29]
She returned to Washington and opened a studio and salon at 235
Ream married
Her
She died in Washington on November 20, 1914.[10] Ream and her husband are buried in section three of Arlington National Cemetery, marked by her statue Sappho.[43]
Legacy
A first-day cover stamp was issued in honor of Ream and her work on the statue of Sequoyah, the Native American inventor of the
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b "Vinnie Ream". Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ "Vinnie Ream (Hoxie) homepage". vinnieream.com. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 3.
- ^ a b c "Vinnie Ream, Christian College's first artist". Columbia College spotlight stories. Columbia College. January 24, 2011. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ "Vinnie Ream (1847–1914)". Historic Missourians. State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on March 28, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Dabakis 2008.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 7.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 11.
- ^ a b "Contributors to Missouri History: Vinnie Ream Hoxie". Missouri Historical Review. Vol. 90, no. 1. State Historical Society of Missouri. October 1995. p. inside back cover. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ^
- ^ Hoxie & Hoxie 1908, p. 4.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 26.
- ^ "National Gallery of Art Library". library.nga.gov. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ Cooper 2009, pp. 73–81.
- ^ a b c d e f Roderick, Lee (February 1976). "Mallet, Chisel, And Curls". American Heritage. 27 (2). Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ^ a b c Gravley, Jennifer. "Stafford Library: Vinnie Ream: Home". library.ccis.edu. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ Pareene, Alex (November 21, 2019). "Making Impeachment Matter". The New Republic. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ISBN 978-1416547495.
- ISBN 978-0812998368.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "Vinnie Ream". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 122.
- ^ Cooper 2009, pp. 126–129.
- ^ Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen (1906). Reminiscences of My Childhood and Youth. New York: Duffield. pp. 318.
- ^ "Abraham Lincoln Statue". Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
- ^ "Vinnie Ream". Architect of the Capitol. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
- ^ Hoxie & Hoxie 1908, pp. 15–17.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 149.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 154.
- ^ "American Institute Fair. The Fortieth Annual Exhibition A Large Display in the Different Branches of Art, Agriculture and Manufacture" (PDF). The New York Times. September 6, 1871.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 157.
- ^ Cooper 2009, pp. 167–168.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 205.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 210.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 220.
- ISBN 0-87474-149-1.
- ^ Hoxie & Hoxie 1908, pp. 56–57.
- ^ Scottish Rite Journal, September/October 2018, page 23
- ^ Hoxie & Hoxie 1908, p. 57.
- doi:10.17077/0006-7474.1367. Archived from the originalon July 10, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Cooper 2009, p. 261.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ Hoxie, Vinnie Ream (1894). "Lincoln and Farragut". In Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham (ed.). The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893. Chicago: Monarch Book Company. pp. 603–608.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-5861-1.
- ^ Vinita Oklahoma Area Chamber of Commerce promoting visitor information for the purpose of relocation & tourism Archived August 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
- Alsop, Stewart (1968). The Center: People and Power in Political Washington. New York: Popular Library.
- Cooper, Edward S. (2009). Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor. Academy Chicago Publishers. ISBN 978-0897335898.
- Dabakis, Melissa (January 1, 2008). "Sculpting Lincoln: Vinnie Ream, Sarah Fisher Ames, and the Equal Rights Movement". American Art. 22 (1): 78–101. S2CID 191491370.
- Hoxie, Richard Leveridge; Hoxie, Ruth Norcross (1908). Vinnie Ream. Press of Gibson Bros.
- Sherwood, Glenn V. (1997). A Labor of Love: the Life & Art of Vinnie Ream. Sunshine Press Publications. ISBN 978-0961574369.
- ISBN 978-1416547495.
- Tomso, Gregory (April 4, 2011). "Lincoln's "Unfathomable Sorrow": Vinnie Ream, Sculptural Realism, and the Cultural Work of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century America". European Journal of American Studies (in French). 6 (2). ISSN 1991-9336.
External links
- Media related to Vinnie Ream at Wikimedia Commons