Anne Whitney
SCULPTOR (1821 - 1915)
Born 1821 in Massachusetts, Anne Whitney
was an American sculptor who made life-size
statues and portrait busts that addressed
abolitionist and feminist concerns. In the 1860
exhibit of the National Academy of Design in
New York City, she exhibited Laura Brown, a
bust of a child. Frustrated by societal rules in
the US, which dictated that women could not
depict nude men in their art, Whitney moved
to Rome in 1867 and became acquainted with
sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Edmonia Lewis.
She created portrait busts of prominent
suffragists such as Alice Freeman Palmer,
Lucy Stone, Mary A. Livermore, Frances
Willard, and Harriet Martineau, and
abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe
and William Lloyd Garrison.
Vinnie Ream
SCULPTOR (1847 - 1914)
Vinnie Ream, born 1847 in Madison,
Wisconsin, was a sculptor who is most
recognised for statue of Abraham Lincoln,
which is in the U.S Capitol Rotunda. During
1863 to 1867 Raem created portraits of
figures such as General Ulysses S. Grant,
General George A. Custer, Senator John
Sherman, and congressman Thaddeus
Stevens. She abandoned working with
sculpture during her marriage as it was
thought improper but revisited it in later years
and created a statue of Iowa governor Samuel
Kirkwood, as well as the model for a statue of
Sequoyah.
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