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In 1929, Yousuf Karsh, one of the most noted portrait photographers of the 20th century, began his career in Boston. After many years in Canada, he later returned, spending the final five years of ...
Yousuf Karsh stands for a photo next to the “Roaring Lion” portrait during the preview of his 80th birthday exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. Photo: PA Images via Getty Images.
The 1941 portrait of the British leader taken by Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh is now ready for the last step of its journey home to the Fairmont Château Laurier, the hotel in Ottawa where it ...
Both Karsh and Winston had stayed at the hotel. Ottawa's CTV television reported Karsh and his wife lived in the hotel for two decades and even operated his studio in the hotel from 1972 to 1992 ...
The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph. By Ian Austen Like many people in Ottawa, I ...
A celebrated portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen from an Ottawa hotel nearly two years ago, has been located in Italy. The photograph, a 1941 portrait by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh, had ...
Yousuf Karsh’s 1941 portrait of Winston Churchill, “The Roaring Lion.” AP. Cassinelli bid over $5,300 (£4,200), believing it was the perfect piece for his apartment.
Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian photographer who was born in 1908. His work is currently being shown at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Fine Arts, ...
Fairmont Chateau Laurier General Manager Genevieve Dumas looks on as Ottawa Police Services Detective Akiva Gellar speaks about the stolen Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill, during a news ...
Isabelle Mondou (left), Canadian Cultural Heritage deputy minister, and Andrea Clark-Grignon, head of Public Affairs, unveiled Yousuf Karsh’s 1941 portrait of Britain’s Prime Minister Winston ...