1. Lavinia Ellen "Vinnie" Ream Hoxie was an American sculptor.
25 Facts About Vinnie Ream
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Lavinia Ellen Vinnie Ream was born September 25,1847, in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Vinnie Ream's father, Robert, was a surveyor for the Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory and a Wisconsin Territory civil servant.
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Vinnie Ream attended Christian College in Columbia, Missouri, now known as Columbia College.
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Vinnie Ream was one of the first women to be employed by the federal government, as a clerk in the dead letter office of the United States Post Office from 1862 to 1866 during the American Civil War.
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Vinnie Ream sang at the E Street Baptist Church, and for the wounded at Washington, DC hospitals.
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Vinnie Ream became an apprentice in Mills's sculpting studio the next year, at the age of seventeen.
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Vinnie Ream was the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission as an artist from the US government for a statue.
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Vinnie Ream 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.
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Vinnie Ream had used her previous bust of Lincoln as her entry into the selection contest for the full-size sculpture.
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Vinnie Ream was known for her beauty and her conversational skills, which likely contributed to these accusations.
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Vinnie Ream worked in a studio in Room A of the basement of the Capitol.
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Ross cast what was seen as the decisive vote against the removal of President Johnson from office, and Vinnie Ream was accused of influencing his vote.
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Vinnie Ream was almost thrown out of the Capitol with her unfinished Lincoln statue.
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Vinnie Ream feared that removing her statue of Lincoln from the studio space would destroy it.
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Once the US government had approved the plaster model, Vinnie Ream traveled to Paris, Munich, Florence, then Rome, to produce a finished marble figure.
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Vinnie Ream studied with Leon Bonnat in Paris, producing busts of Gustave Dore, Pere Hyacynthe, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Antonelli.
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On January 25,1871, her white marble statue of United States President Abraham Lincoln was unveiled in the United States Capitol rotunda, when Vinnie Ream was only 23 years old.
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Vinnie Ream later opened a studio at 704 Broadway, New York City.
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Vinnie Ream returned to Washington and opened a studio and salon at 235 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Vinnie Ream was unsuccessful in her entry in the Thomas statue competition.
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Vinnie Ream's sculpture, located at Farragut Square, Washington, DC was dedicated on April 25,1881.
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Vinnie Ream's husband was reassigned to Montgomery, Alabama, and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Vinnie Ream designed the Statue of Sequoyah, the first free-standing statue of a Native American to be displayed in Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol.
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Vinnie Ream was one of the only known examples of this occurring in America.