The Puddle Jumpers - Montgomery, Alabama
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trodman
N 32° 21.069 W 086° 12.752
16S E 574096 N 3579631
A sculpture of children running and jumping over puddles hand-in-hand. This sculpture can be found in the Blount Cultural Park in Montgomery, AL adjacent to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. This is copy 2/15 of this sculpture.
Waymark Code: WM9QGZ
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2010
Views: 6
Glenna Maxey Goodacre (born 1939 in Lubbock, Texas, U.S.) is a sculptor well known for having designed the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000. She also designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial located in Washington, D.C., of which there is a smaller replica at Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park in Angel Fire, New Mexico.
Goodacre's art appear in public, private, municipal and museum collections throughout the U.S. Her bronze sculptures feature lively expression and texture. Goodacre graduated from Monterey High School in Lubbock. She then completed studies at Colorado College and classes at the Art Students League in New York. She became a successful Texas painter, but for the last thirty years she has concentrated mainly on sculpture.
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: The Puddle Jumpers
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Glenna Goodacre
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1989
Materials used: Bronze
Location: Blount Cultural Park
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