Helen Adams Keller
Object Details
- Artist
- Onorio Ruotolo, 3 Mar 1888 - 18 Dec 1966
- Sitter
- Helen Adams Keller, 27 Jun 1880 - 1 Jun 1968
- Provenance
- Artist’s son, Lucio P. Ruotolo [1927-2003]; purchased NPG 1975
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1916
- Object number
- NPG.75.16
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Plaster and paint
- Dimensions
- Without Base: 27.3 × 21.9 × 18.4 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/8 × 7 1/4")
- Base: 23.2 × 17.8 × 18.4 cm (9 1/8 × 7 × 7 1/4")
- With Base: 50.5 × 21.9 × 26.7 cm (19 7/8 × 8 5/8 × 10 1/2")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Mask\Life mask
- Helen Adams Keller: Female
- Helen Adams Keller: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer
- Helen Adams Keller: Arts & Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
- Helen Adams Keller: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer
- Helen Adams Keller: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
- Helen Adams Keller: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Humanitarian
- Helen Adams Keller: Arts & Culture\Literature\Writer\Essayist
- Helen Adams Keller: Person with a disability\Blind person
- Helen Adams Keller: Person with a disability\Deaf person
- Helen Adams Keller: Civilian awards\Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.75.16
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ce51791e-0d32-4aa2-b7f9-3ba2833b3660
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