Glenna Goodacre
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Glenna M. Goodacre (born 1939) is a sculptor best known for having designed the Sacagawea Dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000. She also designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial located in Washington, D.C.
BULLETIN: Goodacre is in a coma after having fallen on March 13, 2007, at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An MRI disclosed that Goodacre had a massive head injury. Goodacre's husband, C.L. "Mike Schmidt", told reporters that "we don't know if Glenna fainted and fell, or had a mini-stroke and fell. She had to have fallen somewhere."
Goodacre was born in Lubbock, Texas. She divides her time between Dallas, where Schmidt and Schmidt's son have a law practice, and Santa Fe, where she has kept a studio since 1983. A graduate of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where she was initated as a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, she continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York City.
Goodacre has two children (now grown) with her first husband, real estate broker Bill Goodacre. She married Schmidt (born 1940) in 1995. He commutes to Santa Fe on weekends.
Goodacre was inducted into the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame in Lubbock in 1997.
In August 2005, the former 8th Street in the vicinity of Texas Tech University in Lubbock was renamed Glenna Goodacre Boulevard, an event which occasioned mild resentment from some residents who had never heard of her. She is the mother of the former Victoria's Secret model Jill Goodacre (born 1965), the wife of musician and actor Harry Connick, Jr. (born 1967), of New Orleans.
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[edit] Selected portraiture
- Dan Blocker, (1973) O'Donnell, Texas
- Barbara Jordan (1987) Anheuser-Busch, Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
- Katherine Ann Porter (1986), Anheuser-Busch, Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
- Scott Joplin, 1987, Anheuser-Busch, Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 1987, Anheuser-Busch, Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
- Stephen Austin, Anheuser-Busch, Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
- Ralph A. Johnston, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Eric Sloane, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- After the Ride, Ronald Reagan (1998), Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, California
[edit] Selected public monuments
- Raising the Flag or Pledge of Allegiance, (1991), Stroh's Plaza, Detroit, Michigan
- Philosopher's Rock. (1994), Austin, Texas
- Irish Memorial, (2003) Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[edit] References
- Edson, Gary, ed., Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1995
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Monuments in America, unpublished manuscript
