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Lincoln’s “Unfathomable Sorrow”: Vinnie Ream, Sculptural Realism, and the Cultural Work of Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century AmericaDOI: 10.4000/ejas.9139 Keywords: aesthetics , realism , sentimentality , sympathy , sculpture , American art , nineteenth century , Vinnie Ream Hoxie , Abraham Lincoln Abstract: 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...
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