Photographs & Portraits
- Paul Robeson, 1924 by
Doris Ulmann
- Paul Robeson, 1925 by Winold Reiss (NYPL Digital Gallery)
- Paul
Robeson Portrait, 1928 by Hugo Gellert.
- Portrait
Bust of Paul Robeson, 1928 by Sir Jacob Epstein.
- Ecclesiastical & Icelandic, 1930
December 1, 1930 Time article reports the removal of Antonio Salemme's nude figure of Robeson from an art exhibit at New York's Union League Club.
- Emperor
Jones, 1933
Photograph by Edward Steichen.
- Portrait
of Paul Robeson, 1933
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. It's also available
in a Smithsonian
version.
- Paul
Robeson, Baritone, 1942
One of a series of photographs by Gordon Parks in
the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information
Collection at the Library of Congress. See a second
view, a
third, a
fourth, and a
fifth.
- Paul
Robeson leading Moore Shipyard [Oakland, CA] workers
in singing The Star-Spangled Banner, September
1942
- Russian
War Anniversary Benefit at the Watergate, Washington,
DC, 1942 ( Another
view )
Gordon Parks also photographed Robeson
backstage ( another
view ). Other backstage views show Robeson with
Melvyn Douglas; with
Sonia Trembach and Paul Kovrigaof of the Balalaika
Orchestra; with
Madame Litvinoff, wife of the Russian ambassador;
and with
autograph seekers ( another
view ).
- Editorial
drawing of Paul Robeson, 1943
By artist Charles H. Alston.
- Paul
Robeson, 1943-44
Oil painting by Betsy Graves Reyneau.
- Othello,
1944
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
- 1945, Othello ( Another view )
- Spingarn
Medal Dinner, 1945
View of the dining room, Hotel Biltmore, when the
Spingarn Medal of the NAACP was awarded to Paul
Robeson. Another
view.
- Camilla
Williams with Jacob Epstein's bust of Paul Robeson,
1946
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
- Du Bois, W. E. B., and Paul Robeson, Salle Pleyel, Paris, World Peace Congress, 1949 April 20
- Paul Robeson and Charlotta Bass, ca. 1949
- Paul Robeson Awaits Testimony before the Committee of Un-American Activities , ca. 1949
- Portrait of Paul Robeson, 1950, Roy DeCarava
- Paul Robeson Birthday Card, c. 1973
- 555
Edgecomb Avenue, 1979 (Historic American Buildings
Survey)
Paul Robeson's residence in New York City, from
American Memory at the Library of Congress. The
National Park Service's We Shall Overcome
site also has a page on the
Paul Robeson home, a National Historic Landmark.
- Paul
Robeson, 1999
Mural by artist Peter Pagast at 4502 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.
- Paul Robeson, 2004 (Robert Shetterly, Americans Who Tell the Truth)
- Important Artists [undated] (The Negro Spiritual Workshop)
- Paul
Robeson Photo Gallery [various dates] (Silent
Ladies & Gents)
- Paul
Robeson's Grave
Paul Robeson is buried in Ferncliff
Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY.
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