Glenna Goodacre

Glenna Goodacre (1939–2020) worked for over four decades from her studio in Santa Fe, establishing herself as one of the foremost figurative sculptors of the American West. She is best known for two works of national significance: the Vietnam Women's Memorial (1993), which stands on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and has become a place of pilgrimage for veterans and their families; and the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar coin (2000), for which she received a $5,000 payment she donated entirely to the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation. Her bronzes range from intimate portrait busts and playful figures of children to monumental public commissions, consistently demonstrating a deep sensitivity to the human figure and an ability to convey the full range of human emotion through pose and gesture. She was a defining presence in the Santa Fe fine arts community and in Western figurative sculpture.