Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Object Details
- Date
- 1929-30
- Artist
- Frank Stanley Herring, 1894 - 12 Jun 1966
- Sitter
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth, 24 May 1878 - 2 Jan 1972
- Exhibition Label
- Born Oakland, California
- Lillian Gilbreth had twelve children during the course of her marriage. That did not prevent her, however, from obtaining a doctorate in industrial psychology. Nor did it stop her from taking an active part in the consulting business started by her husband Frank, a pioneer in efficiency engineering. With Frank’s death in 1924, Lillian took over the business, and by the 1930s she was the country’s leading authority in applying workplace efficiency to home management. Among Gilbreth’s most lasting achievements were her efforts to devise ways for the physically handicapped to lead more independent lives.
- Gilbreth posed for this portrait around 1930. Later her daughter Ernestine purchased the picture with royalties from Cheaper by the Dozen, the best-selling memoir that she and her brother had written about their life.
- Provenance
- The artist; purchased 1949 by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Paradise Valley, Ariz., and Reedley, Calif., daughter of sitter; gift to NPG 1997
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York
- Topic
- Costume\Academic\Cap and gown
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: Female
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: Science and Technology\Inventor
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: Science and Technology\Engineer\Industrial engineer
- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: Medicine and Health\Psychologist\Industrial psychologist
- Portrait
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Lillian Carey Barley
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.97.59
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Frame: 114.3 x 88.6 x 4.1cm (45 x 34 7/8 x 1 5/8")
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.97.59
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