This one is in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Posted on 12/22/2025 11:10:14 AM PST by Beowulf9
I've been looking for one particular caricature of Buckley that evidently was not as popular as I thought. Can't find it and looked and looked.
It is not the usual ones that come up but was very well done. Probably came out years ago, but I don't know when, where or who did it.
Hoping someone here can find it.
Have you tried AI?
People love to rag on AI all the time, but it can be useful.
This one is in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Was the artist David Levine?
his voice...drove me crazy...
thank you for putting one up. I’ve seen that one but that is not the one.
The one I’m looking for he was sitting back, looking down with his head tilted back and his mouth open. Ink was darker.
I really miss Buckley.
No, but thank you.
I did try that last night. I was up till 4:30 am looking, which is a bit obsessive but I really thought if I persevered I could find it.
I could not. I found it a couple of years ago and back then thought it was very popular and when I found it thought, gee it’s from kind of an obscure source but back then I found it.
This is a great source but it’s not in there. Where the heck is that thing? It was the best one. Was kind of beautiful.
No. I looked at his work but thank you.
Time Magazine?
https://harpers.org/2008/02/william-f-buckley-jr/
No.
I appreciate it, though.
“Revrun Jaaacksung” - Rush Limbaugh.
Buckley did have interesting vocal fry.
I really miss Buckley.
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A couple of years before the Goldwater election Buckley and his National Review converted me to become the only Republican in my extended family. “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice . . . and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” I’ve remained faithful ever since!
No. I looked at his work but thank you.
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When you find it, would appreciate if you could send me a copy in Private Mail. Thanks.
Line Artist Al Hirschfeld was very popular back in the 60’s through 80’s. I would have thought he had done some work with Buckley as the subject, but I didn’t find any.
Hirschfeld mostly focused on Hollywood and Broadway, anyhow.
Yes. I looked at Hirschfeld’s work. Man, those were some great little line drawings, so fluid. I really thought it was maybe one of his but when I looked the art was not quite it. But I stopped and admired Hirshfeld and thought, gee, those were the days, weren’t they?
The drawing, I must admit, was one of these kind of buck toothed things, but if I remember right, also made a bit of use of the long eyelashes and the elite pose he often took, leaning back and looking down from his tilted back head and eyes as he delivered a kind of a smiling blow.
It caught that pose of his so well.
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