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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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 24 May 2022]
