Vinnie Ream: Should a Teenage Girl Sculpt Abraham Lincoln?
Vinnie Ream became the first woman to win a US government commission for a statue in 1866—at the age of 18! She created a life-sized figure of...
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Frans Post—First Landscape Painter of the Americas
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Nicole Ganbold 3 September 2025
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Candy Bedworth 3 September 2025
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