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Artist
Onorio Ruotolo, 3 Mar 1888 - 18 Dec 1966
Sitter
Helen Adams Keller, 27 Jun 1880 - 1 Jun 1968
Date
1916
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Plaster and bronze patina
Dimensions
52.5cm (20 11/16"), Accurate
Topic
Mask\Life mask
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
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.75.16
Provenance
Artist’s son, Lucio P. Ruotolo [1927-2003]; purchased NPG 1975
