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Young Vinnie Ream Sculpts Lincoln for History
Wisconsin born Vinnie Ream at seventeen sought a model for a sculpture amid 1850s limits on women careers. After lessons with Clark Mills she found a penniless unnamed gentleman to sit five months, died before completion, and her life sized marble Lincoln stands in the Capitol rotunda as testament to a teenage prodigy and a quiet mentor.
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