George Bernard Shaw

Photography and Media

1943

Yousuf Karsh
Canadian, born Turkish Armenia, 1908–2002

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Yousuf Karsh
Title: George Bernard Shaw
Place: Canada (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1943
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; veso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 40.5 × 33.7 cm (16 × 13 5/16 in.); Mount: 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Stuyvesant Peabody
Reference Number: 1952.467
Copyright: © Estate of Yousuf Karsh.

Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Peabody Collection,” July 15, 1956—September 1, 1956. (Peter Pollack)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Portrait Photograph,” January 1-March 2, 1975.

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