Editing Bessie Love (section)

===Portraiture===
Portraits of Love are preserved in public and private collections, including those of the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.93.424|title=Marie Dressler and Bessie Love|website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref> and the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw50129|title=Bessie Love (née Horton)|website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>

Cartoonist [[Alex Gard]] created a caricature of Love for [[Sardi's]], the famed restaurant in Manhattan's [[Theater District, Manhattan|Theater District]].<ref name="archivesnypl" /><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard/page/172|title=Sardi's: The Story of a Famous Restaurant|chapter=Caught Off Guard|page=[https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard/page/172 172]|url=https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard|url-access=registration|date=1953|lccn=53-5500|oclc=1036888925|first1=Vincent Sr. |last1=Sardi|first2=Richard|last2=Gehman|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company}}</ref> It is now part of the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts#Billy Rose Theatre Division|Billy Rose Theatre Division]] of the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]].<ref name="archivesnypl">{{cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/21510|website=The New York Public Library|title=Inventory of Sardi's Caricatures}}</ref> A [[Alberto Vargas|Vargas]] illustration of Love as a young woman appeared in ''[[Playboy]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/playboy-history/Playboy%201978/12%20-%20December%201978/page/176/mode/1up?view=theater|magazine=Playboy|date=December 1978|page=176|title=Viva Vargas!}}</ref> – published in December 1978 when Love was 80 years old.

Despite her demure public image, Love was photographed in the nude by [[James Abbe]]<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/18/fops-and-flappers-wild-fashions-1920s-in-pictures|title=Fops and Flappers: Wild Fashions of the 1920s – in Pictures|date=18 Oct 2016}}</ref> and [[Clarence Sinclair Bull]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bessie-love-vintage-sexy-busty-risque-1832862833|title=Bessie Love vintage sexy busty risque 20s C.S. Bull pre-code topless nude photo!|website=WorthPoint}}</ref> and in sheer fabric by Edwin Bower Hesser,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Shadowland0503Images/page/n45|magazine=Shadowland|title=Bessie Love|date=November 1921|page=46}}</ref> who had also photographed [[Jean Harlow]] in a similar fashion.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bombshelllifedea0000sten_m8l3/page/32/mode/2up?q=hesser&view=theater|page=32|title=Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow|last=Stenn|first=David|date=1993|publisher=Doubleday |isbn=0385421575}}</ref> These images have been shown in exhibitions of these artists' work.