%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