Bill Text: TX HR175 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of artist and sculptor Glenna Goodacre.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-03-18 - Reported enrolled [HR175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR175-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 175 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Glenna Goodacre, an internationally renowned artist | ||
| and sculptor whose works include the Vietnam Women's Memorial, | ||
| passed away on April 13, 2020, at the age of 80; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Born in Lubbock on August 28, 1939, the former | ||
| Glenna Maxey was the daughter of Homer and Melba Maxey, who | ||
| encouraged her artistic inclinations; after high school, she | ||
| studied art at Colorado College, where she met her first husband, | ||
| William Goodacre; upon graduating in 1961, she returned to Lubbock | ||
| and began a prolific career as a painter; she eventually shifted her | ||
| interest to sculpture, displaying several pieces in Lubbock and in | ||
| Santa Fe, New Mexico, through a partnership with art dealer Forrest | ||
| Fenn; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 1974, Ms. Goodacre moved to Boulder, Colorado, | ||
| where she lived for a decade and raised her two children, Tim and | ||
| Jill; she then settled in Santa Fe, a city that she had visited many | ||
| times throughout her life, and later wed her second husband, C. L. | ||
| Mike Schmidt, in 1995; and | ||
| WHEREAS, As a master sculptor, Ms. Goodacre specialized in | ||
| crafting lifelike bronze figure statues; she was awarded numerous | ||
| major public commissions, the most notable of which included the | ||
| Vietnam Women's Memorial displayed on the National Mall in | ||
| Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Mint's Sacagawea dollar coin; in | ||
| 1997, she was chosen as the sculptor for the Irish Memorial in | ||
| Philadelphia, her most ambitious creation, which consisted of 35 | ||
| life-sized figures depicting the Irish potato famine and subsequent | ||
| mass immigration of Irish families to the United States; the | ||
| following year, she completed a statue of President Ronald Reagan | ||
| for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the Ronald | ||
| Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California; | ||
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Goodacre was an academician of the National | ||
| Academy of Design and a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, | ||
| and she received honorary doctorates from Colorado College and | ||
| Texas Tech University; moreover, she was the recipient of such | ||
| accolades as a 2002 James Earl Fraser Sculpture Award from the Prix | ||
| de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale, a 2003 Gold Medal for | ||
| Career Achievement from the Portrait Society of America, and a 2003 | ||
| Texas Medal of Arts; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Although her passing has brought great sorrow to her | ||
| family and to her many friends and fellow artists, Glenna Goodacre | ||
| leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that will continue to | ||
| inspire and enrich the imaginations of those who view it in the | ||
| decades to come; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Glenna Goodacre and | ||
| extend deepest sympathy to her loved ones; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
| Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Glenna | ||
| Goodacre. | ||
| Burrows | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 175 was unanimously adopted by a | ||
| rising vote of the House on March 10, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
