Rachel Louise Carson
National Portrait Gallery
Rachel Louise Carson
- Artist
- Una Hanbury, 1904 - 9 Feb 1990
- Sitter
- Rachel Louise Carson, 27 May 1907 - 14 Apr 1964
- Exhibition Label
- Born Springdale, Pennsylvania
- As a government scientist, Rachel Carson became concerned about the ecological impact of pesticides, especially DDT, and in 1962 she published the groundbreaking Silent Spring. Finely written and passionately reasoned, Silent Spring exploded into national consciousness and can be said to have started the modern environmental movement. Although some of its conclusions are still controversial today, the book was a warning that an active citizenry had to be skeptical of large institutions, an attitude that became a dominant theme of the 1960s and 1970s. Sculptor Una Hanbury, who met Carson shortly before her death, was struck by her tremendous vitality and incorporated that quality into her portrait.
- Provenance
- Una Hanbury [1904-1990]; purchased NPG 1966
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1965
- Object number
- NPG.66.19
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- With Base: 48.6 x 21 x 15.6cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/8")
- Without Base: 28.3 x 21 x 15.6cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/8")
- Base: 20.3 x 15.2 x 15.2cm (8 x 6 x 6")
- Place
- United States\District of Columbia\Washington
- Exhibition
- 20th Century Americans: 1960-2000
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 342
- Exhibition
- Portraits of the World: Australia
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 342
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Rachel Louise Carson: Female
- Rachel Louise Carson: Literature\Writer\Scientific
- Rachel Louise Carson: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist
- Rachel Louise Carson: Science and Technology\Scientist\Naturalist
- Rachel Louise Carson: Science and Technology\Scientist\Biologist
- Rachel Louise Carson: Science and Technology\Scientist\Biologist\Marine Biologist
- Rachel Louise Carson: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.66.19
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4a8f41103-d714-4711-9baf-f318d7e5da9f