Una Hanbury

Una Hanbury (née Rawnsley), (1904–1990) was an American sculptor best known for her bronze portraits.

Una Hanbury
Born
Una Rawnsley

(1904-10-08)October 8, 1904
Staines, Middlesex, England
DiedFebruary 9, 1990(1990-02-09) (aged 85)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
NationalityAmerican
EducationSir Jacob Epstein and Frank Calderon
Alma materRoyal Academy of Arts
Academie Julian
Academie de la Grande Chaumiere
L'Atelier de Vieux Vaison
Known forSculpture
Notable work
busts of Georgia O'Keeffe, Rachel Carson, Robert Oppenheimer

Hanbury was born Una Rawnsley in the English town of Staines and grew up primarily in Kent. Her grandfather was Hardwicke Rawnsley.[1] After graduation from London's Polytechnic School of Art, she studied for three years at the Royal Academy of Arts. Jacob Epstein was her most influential teacher.[2] She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1944 to work for the British Embassy.[3] After taking time off for her family, Hanbury resumed her art career in the mid-1960s. She had one-person exhibitions at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington in 1971.[3] In 1970 she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she stayed until her death in 1990. Her papers are in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Personal life

In 1926 she married Anthony H. R. C. Hanbury, whom she later divorced. In 1957 she married Alan Coatsworth Brown. Her grandson, Colin Poole, is also an artist.[4]

Public collections
Rachel Carson bust by Una Hanbury

References
  1. Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer (1990). American Women Sculptors : A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall. p. 374. ISBN 0816187320.
  2. "Una Hanbury papers, 1910–1994, bulk 1966–1990". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution.
  3. Kovinick, Phil; Yosiki-Kovinick, Marian (1998). An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin: University of Texas. p. 125. ISBN 0292790635.
  4. "Colin Poole". AskArt. Retrieved 18 May 2016.


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