Glenna Goodacre (b. 1939), Crossing the Prairie (2001)

Glenna Goodacre (American, b. 1939) Crossing the Prairie, 2001 Bronze with brown patina 72 inches (182.9 cm) high, including base Ed. 9/11 Inscribed along base with 'Arizona Bronze' foundry mark: G. Goodacre / 2001 9/11 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GLENNA GOODACRE LITERATURE: G. Goodacre, Glenna Goodacre, Sculpture, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2009, p. 2, 5, and 238, illustrated. Glenna Goodacre's sculptures are coveted for their lively expression, texture, design and movement. Her beginning career as a painter provided the foundation for her first bronzes created in 1969. She has since sculpted over 600 different works, the most well-known of which is the Vietnam Women's Memorial installed in Washington, DC on the National Mall in 1993. Her largest piece is the massive Irish Memorial cast in 2002 for Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. Her smallest work is the obverse of the Sacagawea U.S. Dollar first minted in 2000. The most popular of over 50 bronze portraits by Goodacre is After The Ride, a 7 1/2 – foot standing figure of President Ronald W. Reagan sculpted in 1998 for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and another for the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. Another favorite statue is the 2002 larger-than-life West Point Coach Colonel Earl "Red" Blaik for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. An academician of the National Academy of Design and a fellow of the National Sculpture Society, Goodacre has won many awards at their exhibitions over 4 decades. She has received honorary doctorates from Colorado College, her alma mater, and from Texas Tech University in her hometown of Lubbock. In 2002, her life-size Crossing The Prairie won the James Earl Fraser Sculpture Award at the Prix De West Exhibition. In 2003, she was awarded the prestigious Texas Medal Of Arts and later that year was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall Of Fame in Fort Worth. In 2005 a major street in Lubbock, Texas, was named Glenna Goodacre Boulevard. In 2008 Glenna was named Notable New Mexican