Vietnam Women's Memorial - Washington, DC - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

"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."

TITLE: Vietnam Women's Memorial ARTIST(S): Goodacre, Glenna, 1939- , sculptor. Dickie, George, landscape architect. Art Castings of Colorado, founder. DATE: Commissioned 1991. Copyrighted 1993. Dedicated Nov. 11, 1993. MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze with brown patina; Base: granite. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS DC000027 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Located Constitution Gardens, Washington, District of Columbia DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None

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