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Article: John Russell 1919-2008.(FRONT PAGE)(Obituary)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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John Russell, prominent British-born critic who died in New York on Aug. 23 at age 89, wrote about art with eloquence, erudition and wit, voluminously, for six decades. During much of this time he was chief art critic for two major newspapers, in London and New York. A panoramically well-educated generalist embodying the British literary sophistication of an earlier age, Russell had an easy familiarity with the cultural terrain of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries that is seldom to be found today. When writing on artists of those periods--Fragonard, Delacroix, Cezanne, Morisot, the American Luminists, for instance--he could draw upon an extraordinary store of ...
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