Women's Vietnam Memorial - Washington, DC
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YoSam.
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Nurses finally get recognition for their risk and service.
Waymark Code: WM10JWA
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2019
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County of image: District of Columbia
Location of statue: National Mall, in front of Lincoln Monument, between the Vietnam Wall and Reflecting Pool
Artist: Goodacre, Glenna, 1939- , sculptor
Dickie, George, landscape architect
Founder: Art Castings of Colorado
Created: Commissioned 1991; Dedicated Nov. 11, 1993
"The sculpture depicts three female nurses assisting a wounded male soldier on the battlefield. A standing African-American female figure looks towards the sky. Another female figure kneels to her proper right, holding the soldier's helmet. The third female figure sits on a stack of sandbags with the wounded soldier lying across her lap.
The statue commemorates an estimated 11,500 American women who served in Vietnam. Efforts to put a woman's statue at the Vietnam memorial site began in 1984, with the establishment of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. On June 15, 1988, the U.S. Senate approved the addition of a "woman's statue," possibly based on Roger Brodin's model of a young woman in combat fatigues cradling a helmet. The statue was to be sited in Arlington Cemetery. In 1990, a nationwide competition was held, sponsored by the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. The competition jury was split and, in Sept. 1991, the United States Commission of Fine Arts voted approval on a new design, by Goodacre and landscape architect George Dickie, to be placed 300 feet south of Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial. Approximately $4 million was raised privately to fund the sculpture." ~ Smithsonian American Art Museum