Una Rawnsley (Hanbury)
Other names: Mrs Una Hanbury
Born 1904
Died 1990
Active: 1918 - 1990
Country of birth: England
Country of death: United States
Sculptor
Born in Staines, Middlesex. Died at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Studied at the London Polytechnic School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools (c.1925) and with Jacob Epstein. She was married in 1926 and moved to the USA, settling in Washington DC and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hanbury established a successful practice as a sculptor of portrait busts, usually in bronze, her sitters included: Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller and Georgia O'Keeffe. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art in Washington (see http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/hanbuna.htm accessed 6 September 2010).
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1918
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1923
Exhibited once, two works (a portrait bust and a statuette of a racehorse)
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1924
Two years
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1924 (Presumed) - 1925 (Presumed)
Awarded a second prize bronze medal for two models of a bust from the life, and a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture, in 1924. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1924', (1925), p. 32. In 1925, she won a second landseer prize of £20 and a bronze medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1925', (1926), p. 37.
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
pp. 32-33.
Catalogue of the Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, May 1918
May 1918
Cat. No. 396, p. 23
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Una Rawnsley
Oct-Nov-Dec 1904
Staines, Middx.
Vol. 3a Page 13
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915
2006
Una Rawnsley
Spouse: Anthony HRC Hanbury.
Jan-Feb-Mar 1926
London City
Vol. 1c Page 13
Citing this record
'Una Rawnsley (Hanbury)', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1263483236, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
