Helen Adams Keller

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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

Date

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

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Mask\Life mask

Helen Adams Keller: Female

Helen Adams Keller: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer

Helen Adams Keller: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer

Helen Adams Keller: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer

Helen Adams Keller: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist

Helen Adams Keller: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Humanitarian

Helen Adams Keller: Arts and 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

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4868329f5-a9c2-4734-bbdd-08fdd60ab0a4

Record ID

npg_NPG.75.16