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John Russell (art critic)

English art critic and journalist (1919–2008)

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English art critic and journalist (1919–2008)

John Russell CBE (22 January 1919 – 23 August 2008) was an English art critic and journalist.

Life and career

John Russell was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England, in 1919. He attended [[St Paul's School (London)| St Paul's School]] and then Magdalen College, Oxford.

He was an unpaid intern at the Tate Gallery in 1940, but moved to the country after the gallery was bombed. During World War II he worked in Naval Intelligence for the Admiralty. There he met Ian Fleming, who helped to secure Russell a reviewing position at The Sunday Times. Russell succeeded a fired critic at The Sunday Times in 1950.

Art critic Hilton Kramer of The New York Times hired Russell in 1974. Russell was chief art critic there from 1982 to 1990.

Marriages

Russell was married to:

  • Alexandrina, Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony, the former wife of Julius Lanczy. They married in 1945, divorced in 1951, and had one child, Lavinia (married Sir Nicholas Grimshaw).{{cite news |access-date = 12 June 2013}}
  • Vera Poliakoff (died 1992), married 1956, divorced 1971. Also known professionally as Vera Lindsay, she was an artist and actress, daughter of Vladimir Poliakoff and former wife of British journalist Sir Gerald Reid Barry, with whom she had two sons.
  • Rosamond Bernier (née Rosamond Margaret Rosenbaum, formerly Mrs Georges Bernier, formerly Mrs Lewis Riley), a lecturer and founder of the art magazine L'ŒIL. They married in 1975.

Death

Russell died on 23 August 2008 at a hospice in the Bronx.

Books

His books include:

  • Shakespeare's Country (1942; revised 1946) revised & reprinted
  • Switzerland (1950) reprinted
  • Erich Kleiber: A Memoir (1957)
  • Paris (1960; reprinted 1983)
  • Francis Bacon (1964; reprinted 1971, 1979, 1985, 1993 etc.) reprinted & revised
  • Seurat (1965) 'The World of Art Library' series
  • Vuillard (1971)
  • Henry Moore (1973)
  • Turner in Switzerland (1976) with Andrew Wilton
  • The Meanings of Modern Art (1981; revised 1992)
  • Reading Russell: On Ideas, Literature, Art, Theatre, Music, Places and Persons (1989)
  • Matisse: Father & Son (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999)
  • Marc Klionsky (Hudson Hills, 2004)

References

  1. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/25russell.html John Russell, Art Critic for The Times, Dies at 89.]
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