During a career that spanned six decades, photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908– 2002) created iconic portraits of many of the twentieth century’s most influential men and women—from fields as diverse as business, medicine, entertainment, politics, and the arts. Karsh photographed countless international figures, but his images of Americans—from Marian Anderson to Albert Einstein to Grace Kelly—are counted among his finest portraits. This exhibition features forty-eight black-and-white photographs from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, including writer Ernest Hemingway; artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol; actors Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart; athletes Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson; business leaders Elizabeth Arden and Warren Buffett; architects Frank Lloyd Wright and I. M. Pei; first ladies Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Eleanor Roosevelt; and entertainment giants Walt Disney and Jim Henson, among many others. This exhibition is organized and travel by the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
