Helen Wills Moody
Object Details
- Date
- 1936
- Artist
- Edward McCartan, 16 Aug 1879 - 20 Sep 1947
- Sitter
- Helen Wills Moody, 6 Oct 1905 - 1 Jan 1998
- Exhibition Label
- Born Centerville, California
- Playing with a steely determination that earned her the nickname “Little Miss Poker Face,” tennis great Helen Wills Moody became the first American woman to achieve international fame as an athlete. Only seventeen when she won her first American singles championship in 1923, Moody dominated women’s tennis for more than a decade and elevated the sport to a new competitive level with her hard-hitting style of play. Between 1927 and 1933 she won 180 consecutive matches without dropping so much as a single set, and by the time she retired in 1938, Moody had collected thirty-one Grand Slam tennis titles.
- Provenance
- (Allison Gallery); purchased NPG 1999
- Topic
- Helen Wills Moody: Visual Arts\Artist
- Helen Wills Moody: Female
- Helen Wills Moody: Sports and Recreation\Athlete\Tennis
- Helen Wills Moody: Literature\Writer\Sports writer
- Helen Wills Moody: Athletics awards\Olympic medal
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Champions
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 341 Mezzanine
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.99.3
- Type
- Sculpture
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Medium
- Terra cotta
- Dimensions
- With Base: 42.5 x 16.5 x 21cm (16 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/4")
- Base: 14.9 x 15.2cm (5 7/8 x 6")
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.99.3