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Sculptor Vinnie Ream of Canton was famous enough to make the "Through A Century" column in The Canton Repository 100 years after she made history. "100 YEARS AGO – A former Canton girl, Miss ...
But in 1864, 17-year-old Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream managed to steal half an hour with Abraham Lincoln every day—for five months. Ream made a name for herself as an artist at a young age.
No one suggested that Vinnie Ream lacked ambition. At 19, her supporters convinced President Lincoln to sit for her while she created his bust in clay.
vinnie ream and her statue of lincoln.; how justin m'carthy describes the artist and her work to an english audience. share full article. june 10, 1878.
WASHINGTON, May 28. The marriage of Lieut. Richard L. Hoxie, of the Engineer Corps, and Miss Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, which was celebrated at 7 o'clock this evening at the Church of tho ...
Vinnie Ream’s sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, which appeared in photos from the recent Capitol riots, has long had its detractors; now the time is ripe for a positive reassessment.
Vinnie Ream, an early member of the National League of American Pen Women, was 18 years old when she became the first woman to receive a federal commission for sculpture, ...
Vinnie Ream was an American artist who was born in 1847. In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Vinnie Ream is featured in Vinnie Ream: Should a Teenage Girl Sculpt Abraham Lincoln?, a piece from Daily ...
Speech given July 17, 1866 by Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner questioning the Senate's selection of sculptor Vinnie Ream to create a commissioned sculpture of Abraham Lincoln to be placed in the ...
REDLANDS — Vinnie Ream Hoxie was only 14 years old when she began making sculptures of her friends using mud. Her talent was so amazing that she was taken in as an apprentice to American ...
Janine DeBaise, a professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), won the national 2020 Vinnie Ream Medal competition for her essay "The Space Between." Her essay came in ...