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Glenna Goodacre: The Sculptor Who Put a Mother on the Money
She designed the most-circulated portrait of a Native American woman in U.S. history — and when the Mint paid her, she asked for the prize in coins.
In 1999, a sculptor from Lubbock, Texas, won a national contest to give America a new dollar. She chose to put a teenage mother and her infant son on its face. When the Mint sent her prize, she asked for it in dollar coins — and the 5,000 she received are now small rarities of her own making.
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"I have always been totally absorbed with the figure and the head — the representation of emotion with body language and facial expression. I'm a figurative sculptor and I work in a realistic manner."
— Glenna Goodacre
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