020 Literary Greats Gripe About Feliks Topolski’s Portraits (PHOTOS)Portrait of an ArtistThe artist Feliks Topolski painted portraits of 20 great writers for the Harry Ransom Center in the 1960s. The authors were not amiable.Updated Jul. 14, 2017 3:16AM EDT / Published Dec. 12, 2012 4:45AM EST © Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate (4) © Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate (4) T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate William Empson (1906–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate E.M. Forster (1879–1970)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate W. H. Auden (1907–1973)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate John Betjeman (1906–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Graham Greene (1904–1991)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate John Osborne (1929–1994), John Whiting (1917–1963), Arnold Wesker (b. 1932) and Shelagh Delaney (b. 1939)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Herbert Read (1893–1968)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate C. P. Snow (1905–1980)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Stephen Spender (1909–1995)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Rebecca West (1892–1983)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate
© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate (4) T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate William Empson (1906–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate E.M. Forster (1879–1970)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate W. H. Auden (1907–1973)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate John Betjeman (1906–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Graham Greene (1904–1991)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate John Osborne (1929–1994), John Whiting (1917–1963), Arnold Wesker (b. 1932) and Shelagh Delaney (b. 1939)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Herbert Read (1893–1968)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate C. P. Snow (1905–1980)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Stephen Spender (1909–1995)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate Rebecca West (1892–1983)© Trustees of the Feliks Topolski Estate