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Russell Lynes (Joseph Russell Lynes,
Jr.) December 2, 1910 – September 14, 1991) was an
American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor
of Harper's Magazine.
Born in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide (Sparkman)
and Joseph Russell Lynes.[1] His
older brother was the photographer George Platt Lynes.
He was graduated from Yale in 1932 and married Mildred Akin,
a Vassar
graduate, in 1934.[1] He
started as a clerk at Harper & Brothers, the publishing house,
from 1932 to 1936 and was director of publications at Vassar in
1936 and 1937. He then took a job at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where
he was assistant principal from 1937 to 1940, then principal until
1944. He then joined Harper's Magazine as an assistant editor and
became managing editor in 1947, a position he would hold for the
next twenty years.[1]
He died in New
York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Bibliography
- Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow (1949)
- Snobs (1950)
- Guests (1951)
- The Tastemakers (1954)
- A Surfeit of Honey (1957)[2]
- Cadwallader: A Diversion (1959)
- The Domesticated Americans (1963)
- Confessions of a Dilettante (1966)
- The Art-Makers of Nineteenth Century America
(1970)
- Good Old Modern; an intimate portrait of the Museum of
Modern Art (1973)[3]
- More than meets the eye: The history and collections of
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum
of Design (1981)
- The Art Makers: An Informal History of Painting, Sculpture
& Architecture in Nineteenth Century America (1983)
- The Lively Audience: A Social History of the Visual and
Performing Arts inAmerica, 1890-1950. (1985)
- Life in the Slow Lane (1991)
References
- ^ a
b
c
Russell Lynes, 80, an Editor and Arbiter of Taste by
Richard Severo, September 16, 1991, New York Times online retrieved February
18, 2008 obituary
- ^
"WE ADORE self-appointed scolds who tell us what shallow characters
we are. Here is Mr. Lynes casting us as History's Spoiled Children.
We have it too good, he says." Commentary Magazine
- ^
New Criterion discussion of
some of the issues that are fully discussed in Good Old
Modern
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