Adolph Ochs
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Object Details
- Artist
- Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937
- Sitter
- Adolph Simon Ochs, 1858 - 1935
- Exhibition Label
- Born Cincinnati, Ohio
- Adolph Ochs began his career as a newspaper boy for the Knoxville Chronicle, rising at 3:00 a.m. to fold and deliver newspapers for $1.50 per week. His disciplined work habits led to rapid promotions on several newspapers, and by 1878 he was able to purchase the Chattanooga Times. In 1896 he acquired the failing New York Times. Ochs refused to run comics and made book reviews and letters to the editor prominent features. Despite the fierce competition from the “yellow press” during the Spanish-American War, Ochs succeeded in making the Times the “newspaper of record” for the English-speaking world.
- Philip de László was a society portraitist both in Europe and in America during the early decades of the twentieth century. This portrait was painted in April 1926, when the artist was in New York City.
- Provenance
- The sitter; by descent in the Ochs/Sulzberger Family; gift to NPG 2011
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Ochs / Sulzberger Family
- 1926
- Object number
- NPG.2011.142
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 88.9 x 76.2cm (35 x 30")
- Frame: 127.6 x 94.3 x 6cm (50 1/4 x 37 1/8 x 2 3/8")
- Place
- United States\New York\Kings\New York City
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Adolph Simon Ochs: Male
- Adolph Simon Ochs: Journalism and Media\Newspaper publisher
- Adolph Simon Ochs: Society and Social Change\Philanthropist
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2011.142
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm48fabcd1d-ac7a-4d54-9081-8e4e1a3b6ddc
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