The American sculptor whose Sacagawea portrait introduced a new small-dollar obverse in 2000.
Biography
Goodacre built a major public-sculpture career before entering the invited dollar design process. Her model used a contemporary Shoshone-Bannock sitter to create an artistic representation rather than a documented life portrait of Sacagawea.
Style and legacy
The obverse uses a three-quarter turning pose, the infant Jean Baptiste, and broad sculptural planes that differ from conventional profile portraiture. Her obverse continues on Native American dollars while the reverse changes annually. This persistent obverse and rotating reverse make side-specific credit essential.