Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor

An intriguing biography of the American woman sculptor and Civil War-era Washington, DC, fixture.

One of America's least known and most controversial women artists of the Civil War era was Vinnie Ream, who sculpted a bust of Abraham Lincoln from life when she was only sixteen years old and had almost no artistic training.

She was able, through clever maneuvering and dogged determination, to achieve a commission from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the assassinated president-this despi...