Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Visit
  • Exhibitions & Events
  • Art & Design
  • Search

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • The Collection
  • Projects & Publications
  • Past Exhibitions

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Yousuf Karsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956. Gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh

Introduction

Yousuf Karsh

Portraits of Artists
February 27 - August 23, 2009

This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, born Armenia, 1908-2002) one of the most admired portrait photographers. Through his long life he photographed over 15,000 individuals, many of whom were among the 20th century’s most notable, such as Sir Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Artists and designers were frequent subjects and the focus of this exhibition of some twenty photographs portraits including celebrated images of Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Lloyd Wright--all promised gifts to The RISD Museum from the Estate of Yousuf Karsh.Complementing this show will be a selection of portraits of artists from the Museum’s distinguished print, drawing, and photography collections in the Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery.

Selected Objects

Yousuf Karsh

Josef Albers, 1966

Yousuf Karsh

Christian Dior, 1954

Yousuf Karsh

Henry Moore, 1949

Yousuf Karsh

Russel Wright, 1944

Yousuf Karsh

Georges Braques, 1949

Yousuf Karsh

Alexander Calder, 1966

Yousuf Karsh

Marc Chagall, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Augustus John, 1954

Yousuf Karsh

Giacomo Manzu, 1970

Yousuf Karsh

Jasper Johns, 1980

Yousuf Karsh

Joan Miro, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Sally Ryan

Yousuf Karsh

Lenore Tawney, 1959

Yousuf Karsh

Andy Warhol, 1979

Yousuf Karsh

Ansel Adams, 1977

Yousuf Karsh

Lily Dache, 1948

Yousuf Karsh

Vierra Da Silva, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Max Ernst, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Le Corbusier, 1954

Yousuf Karsh

Isamu Noguchi, 1980

Yousuf Karsh

Man Ray, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Edward Steichen (with Joanna Steichen), 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Roman Vishniac, 1971

Yousuf Karsh

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954

Yousuf Karsh

Alberto Giacometti, 1965

Yousuf Karsh

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956

Yousuf Karsh

Pablo Picasso, 1954

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

Yousuf Karsh : Portraits of Artists

February 27 - August 23, 2009
View Checklist PDF

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Give
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use