Glenna Goodacre website revamped with history, impact of Santa Fe artist’s work
Glenna Goodacre made her mark within the art world. The Santa Fe resident died in 2020. The Glenna Goodacre Estate announced the completion of a website – glennagoodacre.com – that will highlight the works.
According to Dany Anthony, estate director, the website offers a detailed biography as well as a chronology of Goodacre’s work and commissions along with many photographs from her life. Pieces owned by the estate are available to be purchased online, as well as an innovative section that allows collectors to place their own Goodacre works for sale on the secondary market. There is also a detailed section for news stories and related media.
Goodacre was a much-heralded sculptor who worked out of her studio in Santa Fe.
In her 50-year career, Goodacre sculpted over 600 lively and expressive works, the most well-known of which is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall in 1993. She also created the obverse for the Sacagawea U.S. Dollar first minted in 2000, as well as the Irish Memorial at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. Goodacre was also an academician of the National Academy of Design and a fellow of the National Sculpture Society.
She has many sculptures around Albuquerque and Santa Fe, including one at the Albuquerque Museum in the public art gallery.
Anthony says there are currently over 100 pieces left in her estate, with many consigned to Nedra Matteucci Galleries also in Santa Fe.
“Glenna was a fixture not just in the Santa Fe art scene but in the sculptural world in general,” says Anthony. “She has important commissions and monuments around the country, so we felt her market needed a consistent place where people cannot just get information about her life and work, but also current works available for sale.”
Goodacre is survived by her son Tim Goodacre and his wife Denise, and her daughter Jill Goodacre Connick and her husband Harry Connick Jr.