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Vennie Ream Hoxie

It's no hoax, folks - she's the Real McCoy! An American Original.
And you thought the only "proper" artists were men!!!
   - So, what i'd like to know is: Was Bobby Riggs
         *really a male chauvanist pig? Or was it
         all a hoax????  See also:  Billie-Jean King - Tennis players; sports.
                                   -[wiki entry]-

See also:  [Sculptors]
           [Cubism]

Vennie Ream Hoxie




-[via]-
  (avail portrait, prints, etc)


  (b.1847.09.25, Madison, Wis, Terra;d.1914.11.20, Washington DC)

  aka Vennie Ream-Hoxie.
  also note:  "Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Vinnie Rean Skulpeter"
               between 1860 and 1875
               Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection 
                     (Library of Congress).
              (via above source)

What language are they speaking??? It sound's barbaric!
That's Amaricanese NOT the King's English ;) - frank.


EncyAmericana sez 

    At age 15 while studying 
    with Clark Mills, she was
    commissioned to mae the
    statue of Abraham Lincoln
    that is the Rotunda of
    Capital (ie, Washington, DC).
         -- 1991 ed, Vol. 14, P. 515.

    Her works include:

      Admiral Farrugut
      Chief Sequoyah


Chronology

Important Works



According to Howard Smagula, "... this piece further
illustrates her concern with transforming ordinary -- sometimes
ugly -- materials into works of art. Sheet rock is similar
to plywood in that it possesses no picturesque qualities. It
is common, in-expensive (mass produced to be eventually
covered with paint and plaster [, or wall-paper]. Each side
of the 3-foot cube has a small centrally placed, square 
opening; through the openings sheet rock is visible 20 layers
deep. By alligning the aperture, it is possible to see through
to the other sides; at the center of the cube is a small, 
empty white space. Winsor presents us with an interesing
situation: An object of great opacity and mass is visually
penetrable and has at its core an empty "seed" of light. 
It tantalizes us with an un-reachable pure space at the
centre of its "being"; a space that physically keeps us out;
a space that can only be reached in our minds."

[p.158; "Currents: Contemporary directions in the Visual Arts",
2nd Ed, 1989, ISBN 0-13-195595-0]