Samuel J. Woolf (1880-1948)
Samuel J. Woolf, a oneTIME artist-correspondent on the frontlines of World War I, rejected the accepted style of portraiture at the TIME, capturing his subjects as they looked, not as they wished to look. Case in point: his 1933 charcoal portrait of United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis, complete with bull-dog jowls. Trained at the New York Art Students' League, Woolf, a successful lithographer, worked for The New York TIMEs before joining TIME in 1924. By the mid-1930s, he had completed nearly 200 portraits for the magazine, mostly in charcoal, with subjects ranging from Pope Pius XI and Charles Lindbergh to Walter P. Chrysler.
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