If they inspire you please support our work. FILE - In this Nov. 18, 1998 file photo, journalist Harold Evans talks about his new book, "The American Century," at his office in New York. Vernon Jordan, a civil rights activist and former advisor to President Clinton who survived a 1980 assassination attempt, has died at 85. x 30 in. Hard, glossy and unreal, this photograph by David Buckland manages both to commemorate and to satirise the fictions of 1980s image-building. Harold Evans and his wife Tina Brown are two of the most successful and original editors today. Working within the constraints on press freedoms in the United Kingdom, he shepherded numerous high-impact reports on public health and political scandals during the 1960s and 1970s. Sometimes we have not recorded the date of a portrait. Sir Harold died of congestive heart failure in New York, according to his wife Tina Brown. Do you have specialist knowledge or a particular interest about any aspect of the portrait or sitter or artist that you can share with us? ... Brown writes of her life with husband, Harold Evans… Eight years later, Evans took over as editor of the Sunday Times, a position he held from 1967 to 1982. He was 92. Tina Brown (m. 1981) Children: 5: Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. She is a producer and writer, known for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015), Three Piece Suite (1977) and Hillary Clinton: The Power of Women (2015). Subscribe to Women in the World Newsletter Women in the World is a convening of mighty women leaders, blazing activists and courageous movers and shakers that has been serving up live events and online news for ten years. He was editor there from 1967-81, in arguably its greatest days, moving to The Times in 1981. The National Portrait Gallery will NOT use your information to contact you or store for any other purpose than to investigate or display your contribution. Carla Wallenda, a member of the famed Flying Wallendas high-wire act and the last surviving child of the troupe’s founder, has died. NEW YORK - Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who brought investigative moxie to the British press, newsmaking dash to the American book business through bestsellers like “Primary Colors” and synergetic buzz to all as author-publisher Tina Brown’s husband, has died. Gabriel B. Zavala, trailblazing mariachi performer and teacher, dies. He was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler in the late 1980s and a successful book publisher in the 1990s when he held the top job at Random House. Tina as buzz-obsessed. The two-time Pro Bowl cornerback was the first Black sports analyst on national television. We'll need your email address so that we can follow up on the information provided and contact you to let you know when your contribution has been published. Mark Pavelich, a player on the 1980 U.S. ‘Miracle on Ice’ hockey team, dies at 63. In 1981 she married Harold Evans, and the pair now work in New York, he as editor-in-chief of Traveler Magazine and vice-president of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, she as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, where she has again worked the Tatler miracle. Tina Brown, who was married to the former editor of The Sunday Times for 40 years, said her husband had died peacefully at home with his family. Following his graduation from Durham University, Evans took a job at the Manchester Evening News, followed by a stint at the Northern Echo, a regional daily newspaper in the northeast England town of Darlington where he became editor at age 31. Evans and Brown moved to New York in 1984. Former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans has died at the age of 92. 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He was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. Your contributions must be polite and with no intention of causing trouble. She left the Times for the Sunday Telegraph after becoming involved with Times editor Harold Evans (they married in 1981). Please note that we cannot provide valuations. His coverage of the television industry has appeared in TV Guide, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Fortune, the Hollywood Reporter, Inside.com and Adweek. Harold Evans, pictured with his wife Tina Brown, moved to the United States in the 1980s Tina Brown posted a picture of she and Sir Harry's daily ritual of heading to a diner to talk news Harold Evans and his wife Tina Brown are two of the most successful and original editors today. Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055, You must have Javascript enabled to view zooming images, The Gallery in London is currently closed until 2023 for major redevelopment works, Icons and Idols: Commissioning Contemporary Portraits. Evans was born on June 28, 1928, in Manchester, England, where his father was a railroad worker and his mother ran a small grocery shop. Under his watch, the paper raised awareness of air pollution and successfully pushed for a national screening program for the detection of cervical cancer in women. Christina Hamley ('Tina') Brown. In 1973, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh introduced Brown's writings to Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday Times and in 1974 she was given freelance assignments in the UK by Ian Jack, the paper's features editor and in the US by its colour magazine edited by Godfrey Smith. He was 92. Search over 215,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. Harold Evans, the legendary Sunday Times editor and husband of Tina Brown, dies at 92. Help us identify the sitters who visited Camille Silvy’s photographic studio during the 1860s. Sir Harold Evans Evans in 2009 Born Harold Matthew Evans (1928-06-28) 28 June 1928 Eccles, England Died 23 September 2020 (2020-09-23) (aged 92) New York City, New York, U.S. The Sunday Times’ work led to Distillers, the company that marketed and manufactured thalidomide in Britain, to compensate the families who suffered from the drug’s effects. Tina Brown and Harold Evans Photos Photos - Harold Evans (L) and Tina Brown attend the New York Screening of "Salinger" at the Museum of Modern Art on September 3, … FLEET STREET legend Sir Harold Evans, who exposed the thalidomide scandal, has died aged 92. Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker, has died at 92. Evans made his reputation on northern newspapers, before moving south to The Sunday Times in 1966. NEWSMAKERS: Evans with wife Tina Brown, ex-New Yorker editor and co-founder of the Daily Beast. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled. Evans tried to orchestrate a management-led buyout, but Thomson chose to sell to Rupert Murdoch, who was expanding his media footprint beyond his family-owned newspapers in Australia. Tina Brown is married to editor, publisher, and historian Sir Harold Evans and lives in New York City. Can you tell us more about this portrait? Evans, an admirer of the United States who became a citizen in 1993, was a regular among the Manhattan glitterati with Brown, the dynamic celebrity magazine editor who revived Vanity Fair, oversaw the New Yorker for six years and launched the website Daily Beast. How old is Tina Brown: 67 years Female Birthday: November 21, 1953 Sun sign: Scorpio Nationality: England Tina Brown Education: university of oxford, st anne's college, oxford; Tina Brown Spouse: Harold Evans (m. 1981) He acquired a number of hit bestsellers during his run, including the novels “Primary Colors” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” He also landed several high-profile memoirs, including ones from actor Marlon Brando and a young future president named Barack Obama. If you wish to license this image, please use our Rights and Images service. Harold Evans, a towering figure in British journalism who became a longtime New York media fixture alongside his wife, Tina Brown, died Wednesday in Manhattan. Journalist Tina Brown and her husband, writer and publisher Harold Evans, in New York in 2013. We would welcome any information that adds to and enhances our information and understanding about a particular portrait, sitter or artist. Contributions are moderated. Media power couple Tina Brown and Harold Evans have sold their New York City co-cop, located at 447 East 57th Street, for $6.6 million in an off-market deal. Sir Harold Evans at Buckingham Palace in London Friday June 25, 2004, with his wife, Tina Brown, and their children George, 18 and Isabel, 13, after he … If you have information to share please complete the form below. Sitter in 5 portraits. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. Please could you let us know your source of information. I started looking over the Tina Brown profile in Vogue, just released this morning, expecting the usual. Evans’ successful run at the Sunday Times was disrupted in 1977 by the nation’s print unions, which resisted the newspaper industry’s move to using electronic typesetting.