Samuel Johnson Woolf

Born in New York, Woolf studied with Kenyon Cox and George de Forest Brush at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He worked as a correspondent in Europe during World War I. After the war he made a name in the popular press with his pictures of famous men, including George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, and Albert Eintstein. Woolf combined interviews with portrait sketches in a column for Esquire called "Interviewing the Great" and executed hundreds of charcoal portraits for Time.