Eleanor Roosevelt

1946

Yousuf Karsh

Associated Names
Yousuf Karsh

Artist, Armenian Canadian, 1908 - 2002

This grayscale photograph shows an upper-body view of a woman seated and facing slightly to the right. She has pale skin and short, curly hair, and she is smiling. The woman is wearing a long-sleeved outfit with beaded embroidery on the shoulders and cuffs, along with a layered pearl necklace and several rings. She is holding a thin object in one hand, perhaps a pen. The background is dark, with soft lighting on the woman.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.3 × 16.8 cm (9 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 33.5 × 26.2 cm (13 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.100.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eleanor Roosevelt; Hildegarde Loretta Sell. (sale, Heritage Auctions, 12 April 2021, lot 73187). (Manhattan Rare Book Company, New York); Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles; gift to NGA, 2025.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left below image in graphite: © Y Karsh / Ottawa.; by Eleanor Roosevelt, lower center below image in black ink: To Hildegarde / with good wishes / Eleanor Roosevelt; on verso, lower center stamped in black ink: COPYRIGHT / KARSH, OTTAWA.

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