Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

50 x 50 x1.6 cm

19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch.

Unique

 

The Unstoppable Collection

Katherine Johnson did the math that put John Glenn in orbit. Literally, he refused to fly until she personally checked the computer's calculations by hand.

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A pioneering African American mathematician at NASA, she spent a career breaking through barriers nobody had cleared a path through before her. Hidden Figures told the story decades later. She'd already lived it.

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More than 75 years after she left graduate school, West Virginia University gave her an honorary doctorate.

Some debts take a while to settle.