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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Glenna Goodacre, an internationally renowned artist |
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and sculptor whose works include the Vietnam Women's Memorial, |
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passed away on April 13, 2020, at the age of 80; and |
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WHEREAS, Born in Lubbock on August 28, 1939, the former |
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Glenna Maxey was the daughter of Homer and Melba Maxey, who |
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encouraged her artistic inclinations; after high school, she |
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studied art at Colorado College, where she met her first husband, |
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William Goodacre; upon graduating in 1961, she returned to Lubbock |
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and began a prolific career as a painter; she eventually shifted her |
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interest to sculpture, displaying several pieces in Lubbock and in |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, through a partnership with art dealer Forrest |
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Fenn; and |
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WHEREAS, In 1974, Ms. Goodacre moved to Boulder, Colorado, |
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where she lived for a decade and raised her two children, Tim and |
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Jill; she then settled in Santa Fe, a city that she had visited many |
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times throughout her life, and later wed her second husband, C. L. |
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Mike Schmidt, in 1995; and |
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WHEREAS, As a master sculptor, Ms. Goodacre specialized in |
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crafting lifelike bronze figure statues; she was awarded numerous |
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major public commissions, the most notable of which included the |
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Vietnam Women's Memorial displayed on the National Mall in |
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Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Mint's Sacagawea dollar coin; in |
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1997, she was chosen as the sculptor for the Irish Memorial in |
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Philadelphia, her most ambitious creation, which consisted of 35 |
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life-sized figures depicting the Irish potato famine and subsequent |
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mass immigration of Irish families to the United States; the |
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following year, she completed a statue of President Ronald Reagan |
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for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the Ronald |
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Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, Ms. Goodacre was an academician of the National |
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Academy of Design and a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, |
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and she received honorary doctorates from Colorado College and |
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Texas Tech University; moreover, she was the recipient of such |
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accolades as a 2002 James Earl Fraser Sculpture Award from the Prix |
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de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale, a 2003 Gold Medal for |
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Career Achievement from the Portrait Society of America, and a 2003 |
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Texas Medal of Arts; and |
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WHEREAS, Although her passing has brought great sorrow to her |
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family and to her many friends and fellow artists, Glenna Goodacre |
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leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that will continue to |
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inspire and enrich the imaginations of those who view it in the |
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decades to come; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Glenna Goodacre and |
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extend deepest sympathy to her loved ones; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Glenna |
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Goodacre. |