Glenbow Museum Portrait Sponsorship Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes April 2 June 15, 2011

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1 Glenbow Museum Portrait Sponsorship Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes April 2 June 15, 2011 In conjunction with our installation of Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, Glenbow is inviting friends and supporters to sponsor one of these masterful portraits with an investment of $1000. Upon viewing this stunning collection, you will undoubtedly experience a sense of connection to one or more of the portraits. There may be someone with whom you have engaged personally, someone whose contributions to the world have been especially meaningful to you, or someone whom you regard as a hero. Glenbow s unique initiative provides you with the opportunity to sponsor the portrait that stands out to you the most. As you view these works, we invite you to consider which portrait you would like to sponsor. Glenbow is pleased to be hosting a private reception for all portrait sponsors at Glenbow on April 19, during which The Hon. Peter Lougheed and Mrs. Jeanne Lougheed will share their thoughts and recollections about their friendship with Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh. Portrait sponsors will also receive a tax receipt for $850 and a matted reproduction of their chosen portrait. To sponsor a portrait, please visit and select Donate Now. Fill in your contact information in the online form. On the payment screen, select a $1000 gift and enter the name of the portrait you have selected to sponsor in the Comments field. Or, to arrange your sponsorship by phone, contact Paula Woolf at The deadline for portrait sponsorship is April 8, Thank you for your support!

2 Stage and Screen Jean-Louis Barrault Brigitte Bardot Ingrid Bergman Anita Ekberg Humphrey Bogart Joan Crawford Clark Gable Audrey Hepburn Louis Jouvet Boris Karloff

3 Roppeita Kita Peter Lorre Marcel Marceau Politics and Royalty Konrad Adenauer Fidel Castro Madame Chaing Kai-shek Sir Winston Churchill Dwight D. Eisenhower Indira Gandhi Jacqueline Kennedy

4 Nikita Khrushchev Martin Luther King, Jr. William Lyon Mackenzie King Nelson Mandela Lord Louis Mountbatten Jawaharlal Nehru Georges Pompidou Charles, Prince of Wales John and Jacqueline Kennedy The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

5 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco Pierre Elliott Trudeau Music and Dance Marian Anderson Benjamin Britten Aaron Copland Solange Karsh Georges Enesco Martha Graham

6 Fritz Kreisler Solange Karsh and Betty Low Jessye Norman Maya Plisetskaya Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein Pablo Casals Jean Sibelius Rudolph Nureyev Kurt Weil

7 The Visual Arts Georges Braque Walt Disney Alberto Giacometti Jasper Johns Jacques-Henri Lartigue Giacomo Manzu Marino Marini David Low Henry Moore Isamu Noguchi Georgia O Keeffe

8 Henry Moore Norman Rockwell Edward Steichen Edward and Joanna Steichen Pablo Picasso Lenore Tawney Andy Warhol Architecture and Design Le Corbusier Christian Dior

9 Mies van der Rohe Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Russel Wright Great Thinkers and Great Inspirations Muhammad Ali Jacques Cousteau Albert Einstein Sir Edmund Hilary

10 Helen Keller Edward R. Murrow Robert Oppenheimer Albert Schweitzer Bertrand Russell Roman Vishniac Helen Keller and Polly Thompson

11 Authors, Poets and Playwrights W.H. Auden Noel Coward Robert Frost Archie Belaney (Grey Owl) Ernest Hemingway Thomas Mann Somerset Maugham Carl Sandburg George Bernard Shaw John Steinbeck Kurt Vonnegut

12 H.G. Wells Tennessee Williams Francois Mauriac To sponsor a portrait, please visit and select Donate Now. Fill in your contact information in the online form. On the payment screen, select a $1000 gift and enter the name of the portrait you have selected to sponsor in the Comments field. Or, you can arrange your sponsorship by phone by contacting Paula Woolf at The deadline for portrait sponsorship is April 8, Thank you for your support!