Lincoln's Teenage Sculptor.

REAM, Vinnie; WOMEN sculptors; LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865; UNITED States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); AMERICAN portrait sculpture

The article discusses the life of sculptor Vinnie Ream. She was a 17-year-old art student when she requested and received permission to observe U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to sculpt a bust. A year after Lincoln's assassination, Ream was commissioned to create a full-length marble statue of Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Ream became a celebrity and had affairs with Civil War hero William T. Sherman, Masonic leader Albert Pike, and composer Franz Liszt.