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Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus
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Artist
Jon R. Friedman, born 1947
Sitter
Harold Varmus, born 18 Dec 1939
Date
2010
Type
Drawing
Medium
Oil and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 77.4 x 56.2 cm (30 1/2 x 22 1/8")
Topic
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Harold Varmus: Male
Harold Varmus: Science and Technology\Scientist\Biologist\Microbiologist
Harold Varmus: Science and Technology\Scientist\Biologist\Physiologist
Harold Varmus: Science and Technology\Scientist\Biologist\Virologist
Harold Varmus: Nobel Prize
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist, Jon R. Friedman
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
©Jon R. Friedman
Object number
NPG.2011.72
Exhibition Label
Born Oceanside, New York
Most cancers, in the opinion of virologist Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute since 2010, “will become chronic disorders that we take care of and sometimes cure.” Varmus has been thinking about the complexities of the disease for most of his career. In 1989 he and his research partner J. Michael Bishop won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their studies on the genetic basis of cancers and the role of viruses in their formation. Both as an award-winning scientist and as a high-level administrator—he also served as director of the National Institutes of Health and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center—Varmus has mobilized global cooperation and advanced research on cancer and its potential cures. Jon Friedman’s oil sketch, a study for a Sloan-Kettering portrait commission, conveys Varmus’s informality as well as a direct and animated interaction with the viewer.
Harold Varmus nacido en 1939
Nacido en Oceanside, Nueva York
La mayoría de los tipos de cáncer, opina el virólogo Harold Varmus, director del Instituto Nacional del Cáncer desde 2010, “se convertirán en condiciones crónicas que podremos manejar y a veces hasta curar”. Varmus ha ponderado las complejidades de esta enfermedad a lo largo de su carrera. En 1989, junto a su compañero investigador J. Michael Bishop, recibió el Premio Nobel de Medicina por sus estudios sobre las bases genéticas del cáncer y la función de los virus en su formación. Como galardonado científico y administrador de alto nivel (también dirigió los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud y presidió el Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Varmus ha movilizado esfuerzos mundiales de cooperación e investigación del cáncer y sus posibles curas. Este boceto al óleo de Jon Friedman, un estudio para un retrato comisionado por Sloan-Kettering, nos comunica la actitud cordial y sencilla de Varmus, como si sostuviera una animada conversación con los espectadores.
Jon R. Friedman (nacido en 1947)
Óleo y grafito sobre papel, 2010
Donación del artista
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view