Robert E. Sherwood
Newly added to the website we have this portrait of the American playwright and screenwriter.
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Paul Nitze
Nitze was an American businessman and government official.
Joan Baez
Joan Baez was born on this day in 1941.
National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day is informally celebrated on January 2nd.
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
Carter served as 39th president of the United States.
Yousuf Karsh, 1908-2002
Karsh was born on this day, December 23, in 1908.
Harland Sanders
Sanders was founder of KFC.
Ralph Bunche
Bunche was an American political scientist, and diplomat.
Patricia Neal
Neal was an American actress of stage and screen.
Aaron Copland
The “Dean of American Composers” died on this day in 1990.
Jack Bush
Bush was a Canadian abstract painter.
Margaret Atwood
Atwood was born on this day, November 18, in 1939.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru was born on this day, November 14, in 1889.
Joseph Veach Noble
In 1986, the Tampa Museum of Art acquired the prominent collection of antiquities of Mr. Noble.
Judith Jamison, 1943-2024
Jamison was an American dancer and choreographer.
Karsh: The Planet
A “small body” has been named ‘Karsh’.
Bryan Adams
Adams was born on this day, November 5, in 1959.
W. H. Auden
In Stephen Spender’s garden, Auden talked about ‘coming home.’
William D. Coolidge
Coolidge was an American physicist and engineer, who made major contributions to X-ray machines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Broadacre City” is the latest magazine in MoMA’s One on One series.
Arthur Miller
Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt was born on this day, October 11, in 1884.
Atlas Steel
This image is published in the Chipstone Foundation’s quarterly magazine.
Clement Attlee
Attlee was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.
Bernard Madoff
Madoff was photographed on this day, October 3, in 1988.
Groucho Marx
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx was born on this day, October 2, in 1890.
Thurgood Marshall
President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court.
Elie Wiesel
“In his book-lined study, I found an erudite storyteller.”
Barbara Walters
Walters was a working journalist from 1952 until 2015.
Churchill Returns to Canada
The handing-over ceremony took place at the Embassy of Canada in Rome.
Sophia Loren
Happy birthday Sophia Loren – 90 today!
Marguerite Yourcenar
Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist.
Stolen Churchill Photograph Found
The Ottawa Police Service has found the stolen Churchill photograph.
Lenore Tawney
“Tawney is on the precipice of long-overdue recognition.”
Perry T. Rathbone
“Busy all day with the greatest living portrait photographer, Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa.”
Bell Island
In the early 1950s, Karsh took an assignment from Maclean’s magazine to photograph cities across Canada.
Barnett Newman
Newman is regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism.
Alain Delon, 1935-2024
French actor and producer Alain Delon has died.
Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair kicked off today, August 15, in 1969.
Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899.