Girl With Ribbons
By Glenna Goodacre, Installed 1986
In her 50-year career, Glenna Goodacre sculpted over 600 lively and expressive works, the most well-known of which is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, DC on the National Mall in 1993. Her largest piece is the massive Irish Memorial cast in 2002 for Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. Her smallest work is the obverse of the Sacagawea U.S. Dollar first minted in 2000. The most popular of over 50 bronze portraits by Goodacre is After The Ride, a 7 1/2 – foot standing figure of President Ronald W. Reagan sculpted in 1998 for the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and another for the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. Another favorite statue is the 2002 larger-than-life West Point Coach Colonel Earl “Red” Blaik for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
