Collection Highlights
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
1918.325
Graphite with scratching out on beige paper
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891-1968)
Title
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891-1968)
Date
c. 1940-45
Medium
Crayon and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. ( 60 x 44.1 cm )
Description
Portrait
Credit Line
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number
1947.201
Marks
inscriptions: Signature pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Signed at lower right in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Gallery Label
The subject was a leading figure in the field of journalism in the middle of the 20th century. In 1917 he married Iphigene B. Ochs, the daughter of Adolph S. Ochs, then publisher of The New York Times. Sulzberger joined The Times in 1918 and when Ochs died in 1935 he assumed the leadership of what was by then one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the world. He served as president until 1957, and from 1957 until his death as chairman of the board.
Provenance
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
