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Artist
Jo Davidson, 30 Mar 1883 - 2 Jan 1952
Sitter
Helen Adams Keller, 27 Jun 1880 - 1 Jun 1968
Date
1942
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Terracotta with grayish white slip on wood base
Dimensions
With Base: 46.6 x 46.4 x 24cm (18 3/8 x 18 1/4 x 9 7/16")
Without Base: 41.5 x 46.4 x 24cm (16 5/16 x 18 1/4 x 9 7/16")
Base: 5.1 x 51 x 25.4cm (2 x 20 1/16 x 10")
Topic
Helen Adams Keller: Female
Helen Adams Keller: Literature\Writer
Helen Adams Keller: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
Helen Adams Keller: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Social reformer
Helen Adams Keller: Literature\Writer\Novelist
Helen Adams Keller: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Humanitarian
Helen Adams Keller: Literature\Writer\Essayist
Helen Adams Keller: Society and Social Change\Person with a Disability\Blind
Helen Adams Keller: Society and Social Change\Person with a Disability\Deaf
Helen Adams Keller: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Portrait
Place
United States\Pennsylvania\Bucks\Lahaska
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Object number
NPG.67.49
Provenance
(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.), New York; purchased 1967 NPG
