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'''Glenna Maxey Goodacre Schmidt''', known professionally as '''Glenna Goodacre''' (August 28, 1939 – April 13, 2020), was a popular sculptor and painter born in [[Lubbock]], Texas]], and based from 1983 until her death in [[Santa Fe]], [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/glenna-goodacre/e323220712338|title=Glenna Goodacre|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}< /ref>
'''Glenna Maxey Goodacre Schmidt''', known professionally as '''Glenna Goodacre''' (August 28, 1939 – April 13, 2020), was a popular sculptor and painter born in [[Lubbock]], Texas]], and based from 1983 until her death in [[Santa Fe]], [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/glenna-goodacre/e323220712338|title=Glenna Goodacre|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref>
Goodacre is best known for the Vietnam Women's Memorial installed in 1993 on the National Mall in [[Washington, D.C.]], and for her [[Sacajawea]] Dollar. completed in 2000. Her largest sculpture is the Irish Memorial cast in 2002 for Penn's Landing in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?n=glenna-goodacre&pid=195993081|title=Glenna Goodacre Obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=April 17, 2020|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref>
Goodacre was encouraged at an early age by her parents, [[real estate]] developers Homer Glen and Melba Maxey, to pursue her love and talent for art. After Monterey High School in Lubbock, she graduated in 1961 from Colorado College , a liberal arts institution in [[Colorado Springs]], at which she met her husband, William Goodacre, by whom she had two children, Tim Goodacre and Jill Connick, the wife of entertainer Harry Connick, Jr. Upon graduation, she returned to Lubbock to begin her career as a prolific painter in addition to being a wife, cook, and hostess. In 1974, she moved to Boulder, [[Colorado]].<ref name=obit/>
Goodacre was encouraged at an early age by her parents, [[real estate]] developers Homer Glen and Melba Maxey, to pursue her love and talent for art. After Monterey High School in Lubbock, she graduated in 1961 from Colorado College , a liberal arts institution in [[Colorado Springs]], at which she met her husband, William Goodacre, by whom she had two children, Tim Goodacre and Jill Connick, the wife of entertainer Harry Connick, Jr. Upon graduation, she returned to Lubbock to begin her career as a prolific painter in addition to being a wife, cook, and hostess. In 1974, she moved to Boulder, [[Colorado]].<ref name=obit/>
Goodacre and her first husband divorced in 1983, and she moved to Santa Fe, where her family had long had a cabin on the Pecos River.. In 1995, she married the [[Dallas]] [[attorney]] C. L. "Mike" Schmidt; they remained together until her death at the age of eighty. A street near the campus of [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock is named in Goodacre's honor.
Goodacre and her first husband divorced in 1983, and she moved to Santa Fe, where her family had long had a cabin on the Pecos River.. In 1995, she married the [[Dallas]] [[attorney]] C. L. "Mike" Schmidt; they remained together until her death at the age of eighty.<ref name=obit/> A street near the campus of [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock is named in Goodacre's honor.
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