Charles Krause

Nicole Jeffords (2022)

This is a portrait of my friend and colleague, Charles Krause, an award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. Today, Charles writes mostly about political corruption via his subscriber-based column, “The Swamp Report,” which we published frequently on ArtProfiler.com. But his career in journalism spans decades. Charles was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, CBS News, The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour and PBS. He founded the Center for Contemporary Political Art in D.C., which was open for nearly a decade before the pandemic struck.

I don’t know if I’m done with this drawing or not… it looks like Charles, but there is something about his mouth that isn’t quite right yet. In drawing him, I saw a resemblance to my father, Gustave Schindler, a well-known art collector whose family fled Hitler Germany in the 30s. He was a great man, kind, wise, generous, beloved by all. I miss him very much, which is why it gave me so much pleasure to draw Charles.