Always conflicted about her status as a “woman of ease,” Juliette Gordon Low looked for a call to service and found it in scouting. From the beginning, membership included girls from different religious, ethnic, and social backgrounds, as well as girls with disabilities. (Low herself was severely hearing impaired for much of her life.) Today there are more than 2.5 million Girl Scouts in the U.S. and in nearly 90 other countries. More than 50 million women have participated in Juliette Gordon Low’s organization.
Juliette Gordon Low
Object Details
- Date
- 1887
- Artist
- Edward Hughes, 1832 - 1908
- Sitter
- Juliette Gordon Low, 31 Oct 1860 - 17 Jan 1927
- Provenance
- The sitter; remained at Juliette Low home in Savannah, later owned by the Girl Scouts of America; gift 1973 to NPG
- Topic
- Exterior\Landscape\Rural
- Costume\Jewelry\Bracelet
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Fan
- Juliette Gordon Low: Female
- Juliette Gordon Low: Society and Social Change\Founder
- Juliette Gordon Low: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1900-1930 (re-installation 2012)
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 322
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America; frame conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.73.5
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 133.4 x 96.5 x 2.5cm (52 1/2 x 38 x 1")
- Frame: 167 x 130.8 x 10.2cm (65 3/4 x 51 1/2 x 4")
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.73.5
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