%0 Journal Article %T Lincoln¡¯s ¡°Unfathomable Sorrow¡±: Vinnie Ream, Sculptural Realism, and the Cultural Work of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century America %A Gregory Tomso %J European Journal of American Studies %D 2011 %I European Association for American Studies %R 10.4000/ejas.9139 %X I think that history is particularly correct in writing Lincoln down as the man of sorrow. The one great, lasting, all-dominating impression that I have always carried of Lincoln has been that of unfathomable sorrow, and it was this that I tried to put into my statue. --Vinnie ReamOn August 30th, 1866, Vinnie Ream, at the age of 18, became the youngest person, and the first woman, to be awarded a commission for a statue by the U.S. government [see figure 1]. The commission was for a life-size... %K aesthetics %K realism %K sentimentality %K sympathy %K sculpture %K American art %K nineteenth century %K Vinnie Ream Hoxie %K Abraham Lincoln %U http://ejas.revues.org/9139