"Sidewalk Society Maquette" Lot no. 536
By Glenna Goodacre (1939 - 2020)
1990 (Estimated)
14" x 26" x 10"
Bronze with a marble base
Signed, dated, and numbered
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Glenna Goodacre was commissioned to create the largescale bronze Sidewalk Society in Albuquerque Plaza, New Mexico. Her intention was for people to interact with her sculpture, and to reflect "a kind of cross section of people you find on any sidewalk in America" (Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1995, page 152).
#13 from the limited edition of of 35
The artist's signature and date cast in three of the figures, and numbered 13/35 on the pantleg of the pointing man.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
With a career spanning nearly five decades, Glenna Goodacre has become well-known for her bronze sculptures, specializing in sensitive portraits of children in action. Another subject matter is American Indians including the New Mexico Pueblo Indians exemplified by her depiction of a sacred ceremony, The Basket Dance.
Likely her most important commission is the women's memorial in Washington D.C. commemorating the women who served in the Vietnam War. Another prestigious work, "After the Ride," a seven-foot high statue of President Ronald Reagan, was unveiled in Fall, 1998 at the Reagan Library in Southern California.
She was born in Texas, graduated from Colorado College, and then studied at the Art Students League in New York. From 1983, her home has been in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has won numerous awards from the National Sculpture Society and Allied Artists of America as well as the Gold Medal from the National Academy of Design of which she is an Associate member. In 1993, she was awarded the Knickerkbocker Artists' Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in American Art.