Object Details
- Provenance
- Artist’s son, Lucio P. Ruotolo [1927-2003]; purchased NPG 1975
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Date
- 1916
- Object number
- NPG.75.16
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Artist
- Onorio Ruotolo, 3 Mar 1888 - 18 Dec 1966
- Sitter
- Helen Adams Keller, 27 Jun 1880 - 1 Jun 1968
- Topic
- Mask\Life mask
- Helen Adams Keller: Female
- Helen Adams Keller: Literature\Writer
- Helen Adams Keller: Education\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\Physically disabled\Blind
- Helen Adams Keller: Society and Social Change\Physically disabled\Deaf
- Helen Adams Keller: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Medium
- Plaster and bronze patina
- Dimensions
- 52.5cm (20 11/16"), Accurate
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.75.16
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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