The works of Yousuf Karsh are held in public collections in Canada and internationally. Although the following institutions hold the works listed below, they may not always be on view.
Art Gallery of Alberta
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
780-422-6223

Yousuf Karsh, Winston Churchill, December 30, 1941, printed before 1972
Gelatin silver print
50 x 39.7 cm
Art Windsor-Essex
401 Riverside Drive West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
519-977-0013
artwindsoressex.ca

Yousuf Karsh, Self-Portrait with Negative of Peggy Cummins, March 22, 1946
Gelatin silver print
20.5 cm x 25.4 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Unidentified, Foundry, 1951
Gelatin silver print
50.5 cm x 40.1 cm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
613-996-5115
canada.ca/en/library-archives.html

Yousuf Karsh, Akira Kurosawa, November 1, 1969
Gelatin silver print
34.1 x 27.2 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Anita Ekberg, March 28, 1956
Colour transparency
25.4 x 30.3 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Ambassador Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, October 2, 1949
Gelatin silver print
23.8 x 19.1 cm (image), 35.3 x 28 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Beatrice Lillie, March 18, 1948
Gelatin silver print
23.9 x 29.2 cm (image), 25.2 x 20.3 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Christopher Plummer, April 13, 1959
Gelatin silver print
34.2 x 23.2 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Douglas Cardinal, April 7, 1989
Gelatin silver print
28 x 21.5 cm (image), 35.5 x 27.7 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Early Landscape, 1926
Gelatin silver print
24 x 18.3 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Elixir, September 1938
Chlorobromide print
44 x 31.7 cm

Yousuf Karsh, George Emerson, c.1950
Gelatin silver print
49.8 x 40 cm (image), 50.9 x 41 cm (mount)

Yousuf Karsh, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, Posed in His Honorary Chief Eagle Head Regalia, May 5, 1937
Gelatin silver print
21.8 x 16.9 cm (image), 24.2 x 18.4 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Lady Clark, with dog Angus, August 9, 1934
Gelatin silver print
23.5 x 18.8 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Lester B. Pearson, November 23, 1957
Gelatin silver print
50.4 x 40.5 cm (image), 50.4 x 40.5 cm (support)

Yousuf Karsh, Lilly Koltun, August 10, 1987
Gelatin silver print
25.4 x 19.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Man Eating Lunch [Lawrence Heppler], Great Lakes Paper Company, Thunder Bay, c.1953
Gelatin silver print
12.2 x 9.6 cm (image), 12.6 x 9.8 cm (support)

Yousuf Karsh, Margaret Atwood, November 5, 1977
Gelatin silver print
23.8 x 17.4 cm (image), 27.4 x 17.4 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Martin Luther King, Jr., August 18, 1962
Gelatin silver print
49.7 x 39.7 cm (image), 49.5 x 39.7 cm (support)

Yousuf Karsh, Master Michel Pharand, March 19, 1937
Interpositive made from original 25 x 19.9 cm nitrate negative

Yousuf Karsh, Mrs. Norman Armour, March 18, 1937
Interpositive made from original nitrate negative
25 x 19.9 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Official Portrait of Sir Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Ninth Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada from 1931 to 1935 and His Wife Roberte Ponsonby (Born Neuflize), Countess Bessborough, March 19, 1935
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 17 cm (image), 29.2 x 22.9 cm (mount)

Yousuf Karsh, Pope Pius XII, June 16, 1949
Positive paper colour dye transfer
51.4 x 41 cm

Yousuf Karsh, President Dwight Eisenhower, July 20, 1966
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco, September 22, 1956
Gelatin silver print
14.9 x 13.5 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Princess Elizabeth, November 1, 1943
Kodachrome print
34.1 x.27.1 cm (image), 35.4 x 28.2 cm (support)

Yousuf Karsh, Self-Portrait, September 1938
Gelatin silver print
15.3 x 10.5 (image), 20.7 x 12.8 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Self-Portrait, 1939
Gelatin silver print
23.4 x 15.7 cm (image), 25.1 x 16.8 cm (support)

Yousuf Karsh, Self-Portrait, 1956
Gelatin silver print
22.2 x 19 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Shirley Lake, June 5, 1937
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19 cm (image), 35 x 27.7 (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Solange Gauthier posing with a stuffed dog in preparation for a portrait sitting with Lady Anne Elizabeth Clark, c.August 9, 1934
Interpositive made from original cellulose nitrate negative

Yousuf Karsh, William Lyon Mackenzie King, March 15, 1947
Colour transparency
25.1 x 20 cm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
514-285-2000
mbam.qc.ca

Yousuf Karsh, Albert Einstein, February 11, 1948
Gelatin silver print
48.9 x 53.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Andy Warhol, November 21, 1979
Gelatin silver print
59.4 x 49.3 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Anna Magnani, May 1, 1958
Gelatin silver print
59.6 x 48.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, City of Straws, 1940
Gelatin silver print
59.9 x 49.2 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Ernest Hemingway, March 15, 1957
Gelatin silver print
60.3 x 50.5 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Estrellita Karsh, January 1, 1963
Gelatin silver print
60.3 x 49 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Georgia O’Keeffe, March 18, 1956
Gelatin silver print
59.7 x 47.9 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Hands of Gratien Gélinas, March 29, 1945
Gelatin silver print
61 x 50.5 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Jean Sibelius, July 30, 1949
Gelatin silver print
60.1 x 50.3 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Johan Helders, August 12, 1936
Gelatin silver print
44.6 x 36.8 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Kenojuak Ashevak, April 8, 1976
Gelatin silver print
25.3 x 20.3 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Muhammad Ali, March 27, 1970
Gelatin silver print
50.6 x 60.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Pablo Casals, June 30, 1954
Gelatin silver print
60.3 x 49.1 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Pablo Picasso, July 2, 1954
Gelatin silver print
60.1 x 50 cm

Yousuf Karsh, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, November 4, 1968
Gelatin silver print
43 x 35.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1-800-319-2787
gallery.ca

Yousuf Karsh, Daniel Makokis, Edmonton, 1952
Gelatin silver print
31.3 x 26.7 cm (image), 50.7 x 40.6 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Photographed in His Paris Atelier, April 7, 1965, printed 1987
Gelatin silver print
33.2 x 40.9 cm (image), 60.6 x 50.9 cm (sheet)

Yousuf Karsh, Ruth Draper, November 25, 1936, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
48.6 x 37 cm

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