Physicians

Portrait of Arthur Canfield Upton, MD (1923-2015). From 1980 to 1992, Dr. Upton served as the chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He became Professor Emeritus of Environmental Medicine in 1992.

Portrait of William Henry Welch, MD (1850-1934). Dr. Welch taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Pathology from 1878 to 1884.

Portrait of Mills Sturtevant, MD (1882-1945). Dr. Sturtevant held the role of Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1933 to 1945 at New York University College of Medicine.

Photograph of John Murray Steele, MD (1900-1969), from p. 45 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Steele served as Professor of Medicine at New York University College of Medicine.

Seated portrait of George Barclay Wallace, MD (1874-1948). Dr. Wallace served as Professor of Pharmacology and head of the Department of Pharmacology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University.

Portrait of Webb William Weeks, MD (1886-1940). Dr. Weeks taught at New York University College of Medicine as a Professor of Ophthalmology from 1916 until his death in 1940. From 1928 to 1940, he was the head of the Ophthalmology Department.

Signed portrait of Fred D. Weidman, MD (1881-1956). Dr. Weidman was a dermatologist, spending his career as a teacher and researcher in Philadelphia. In 1926-27, he designed an important survey and public health report on the treatment of ringworm and other fungal diseases in the United States and abroad.

Portrait of Jonathan W. Uhr, MD (1928-2024). Dr. Uhr received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1952. He became the Chair and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1972 and later held the position of Professor Emeritus of Immunology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Reproduction of a painted portrait of Leopold Stieglitz, MD (1867-1956). The portrait was done by the British artist Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn in 1950. Dr. Stieglitz held the first New York physician’s license, issued by the New York State Board of Regents in 1891, and practiced general medicine until 1952. His patients established the Leopold Stieglitz Visiting Professorship at the New York University College of Medicine in his honor.

Signed portrait of John Murray Steele, MD (1900-1969), in military uniform. Dr. Steele served as Professor of Medicine at New York University College of Medicine.