Portrait of a Balding Man in Charcoal

A charcoal and white chalk portrait shows a balding man with a steady gaze and faint smile, turned three-quarters toward the viewer against a dark, smudged background. He wears a dark suit jacket, collared shirt and tie, drawn on tan paper with a signature at lower left.

Artist

Samuel Johnson Woolf

Date

1934

Medium

Charcoal on paper

Source

Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)

Size

2900 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery