Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes August 21, 2011

Through his portraits, Yousuf Karsh helped to create our collective visual memory of 20th century statesmen, artists, musicians, writers, actors, and celebrities, including Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, Audrey Hepburn, and many others. Throughout his long career, Karsh put aside a selection of his own favorite prints of his favorite subjects that are now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. This exhibition contains 100 prints drawn from that collection, is organized by Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, California.