VINNIE REAM HOXIE ART TREASURES GO TO WISCONSIN, IOWA, OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI
Vinnie Ream Hoxie Art Treasures Go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Oklahoma, Missouri Lincoln Posed for Artist By Evelyn Norcross Slier ill in Washington Star It is a pleasure to note that many of the...
...with inscription to Vinnie Ream: and many photographs and testimonials...
...She worked deftly and quickly, producing a striking likeness...
...Albert Pike and Col...
...This gift was made largely because of the influence of O D. Rollins of Columbia, a relative of Vinnie's good friend, the late Representative James Rollins...
...The articles were being sent in four different shipments to the historical societies and museums of Wisconsin...
...There may be seen her famous marble statue...
...a. -j...
...At Madison, Wis., the artist's birthplace, a Vinnie Ream memorial room is reserved in the building of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin...
...A large portrait of Vinnie in Italian peasant costume also has been given to Iowa, as well as numerous photographs of her outstanding works...
...She was the youngest child in school and had never before been away from her mother...
...Mills handled~the clay in modeling a bust of Vinnie, to be placed in the library of Christian college, she watched him, fascinated, and said impulsively: "I could do that if I had some clay...
...James Rollins, who later became a' Congressman from Missouri...
...C. L. VFEW WEEKS ago, Vinnie Ream's studio, which since her death in 1914 has been a shrine where all who knew the artist were welcome visitors, was giving of its wealth to the world...
...The statue of Gov...
...Her residence was long a center of the capital's society and her salons were famous...
...kirk-wood, famous Civil war governor, was modeled by her and represents Iowa in Statuary Hall...
...This friendship proved to be the foundation of her success, for it was Maj...
...Vinnie Ream Hoxie Art Treasures Go to Wisconsin, Iowa, Oklahoma, Missouri Lincoln Posed for Artist By Evelyn Norcross Slier ill in Washington Star It is a pleasure to note that many of the writers of letters appearing in the People's Forum speak of having read La Follette's from its first number...
...The artist's affection for Missouri dated from 1858, when she enrolled as a student in what is now Christian college in Columbia, Mo...
...Vin-nie's last work, not quite completed before her death, was the state, "Se-quoya...
...Through special committees in the League of American Pen Women, the Daughters of the American Revolution and various other organizations, the remarkable story of the talented girl, who was the prodigy of the sixties, has been frequently retold...
...for she spent many of her later years in that state...
...numerous photographs and articles about the artist and personal mementoes...
...Spirit of the Carnival...
...Rollins who in Washington took Vinnie to Clark Mills, the sculptor...
...Oklahoma and Missouri...
...Gustave Dore...
...So replete was her life with hardships and triumphs, the latter won by her own perseverance, that the story bears a message of inspiring helpfulness...
...was presented to her native state, and for years it has ornamented the state Capitol in Madison...
...While Vinnie was in college she made the acquaintance of Maj...
...which won her wide acclaim from European and American art critics, has been sent to the Historical Society in Deo Moines...
...The heroic marble bust, "America...
...Richard L. Hoxie...
...praised by art critics for its rare beauty...
...which represents the state of Oklahoma in Statuary Hall in the capital...
...The State Histories* Society In Columbia, Mo., has been given the much-prized portrait of Vinnie modeling the bust of Lincoln...
...These readers may recall accounts of the rare hospitality enjoyed in those earlier years at the home of General and Mrs...
...E. C. Bou-dinot, modeled from life by Vinnie Ream: collee;ion of books from her private library: the bronze sign made for her studio trom the propeller of Admiral Farragat's flagship...
...the widely known portrait of Vinnie Ream at her harp by Clark Mills, the sculptor who discovered her talent...
...Every girl in her class signed the petition, which was one of the artist's dearest treasures throughout, her life, kept with tributes from some of the world's most distinguished persons...
...The sculptor was much interested in this slate, and Col...
...that Washington should have had the Vinnie Ream memorial collection...
...Richard L. Hoxie, was a brilliant affair...
...Her monument in Arlington, overlooking the Potomac, claims her as belonging to the nation...
...It is the work of George Bingham and is considered a masterpiece...
...The Progressive is greatly indebted to the Washington Star for special permission to reprint in abbreviated form the following article concerning vinnic Ream and the disposition of her art treasures.—-B...
...It is a petition addressed to Ihe faculty privileges not granted to other students "because she deserves them...
...Her memorial in Arlington cemetery is a bronze reproduction of her own "Sappho," typifying the muse of lyric poetry, standing over the medallion portrait of Vinnie Ream with the inscription, "Words that would praise thee are impotent...
...For many years the sculptor was prominently identified with the national capital as artist and as official hostess...
...Vinnie's Washington studio has shared its treasures with the great West, of which, like Lincoln, she was a part...
...VINNIE was frequently called "an adopted daughter ot Iowa...
...A tiny manuscript, still in existence, is evidence of the regard with which her schoolmates held her...
...It has ever been the aim of the present Mrs...
...Mills was delighted at the discovery of so precious and genuine a talent and gladly became her instructor...
...The West...
...bronze hand o.' Abraham Lincoln, modeled from life: original painting by the eminent French artist...
...representing the Italian fiesta, completed in Rom" at the time her Lincoln statue was being cut in marble...
...Boudinot...
...Richard L. Hoxie, who was an intimate friend of the artist, to perpetuate Vinnie Ream's memory...
...Sherman gave her in marriage to Lieut...
...Vinnie's wedding, at which Gen...
...In front of it is the graceful stone seat, symbolizing her spirit of hospitality...
...The sculptor promptly gave her a ball of it and told her to model his head...
...As Mr...
...Samuel S. Kirkwood and Se-quoya in the capitol, "Sappho" in the National Art Gallery and Admiral Far-ragut in Farragut Square...
...She frequently said: "I was modeling the man in clay, but he was being engraved still more deeply in my heart...
...From the first she seemed an intimate friend and so long as she lived was beloved and admired by each member of the family to whom memories of her genius and personality axe a precious heritage...
...Soin after the artists's death, her large statue...
...AMONG Vinnie's works in Washington are statues of Abraham Lincoln...
...which had been put in marole under She leadership of the late Senator Voorhees...
...There are some who fee...
...The Passion Flower...
...the native Indian who was one of it.s founders, named the town Venita, Okla., for her...
...The sculptor's close contact with Lincoln, during the five months the martyred president daily posed for her, 'was significant...
...i Thus Wisconsin will have a permanent soune of inspiration for its citizens because of the brilliant success of a poor little girl who was born in one of the state's first log cabins The State Histcrical Society of Oklahoma has been given large busts of Gen...
...marble bust...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 10
