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{{short description|American art historian}}

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==Career==
==Career==
Lynes started as a clerk at [[Harper & Brothers]], the publishing house, from 1932 to 1936 and was director of publications at [[Vassar College|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.<ref name="RL"/>
Lynes started as a clerk at [[Harper & Brothers]], the publishing house, from 1932 to 1936 and was director of publications at [[Vassar College|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.<ref name="RL"/> Lynes was interested in historic preservation, notably and influentially writing about the threat to [[Olana State Historic Site|Olana]], the home of [[Frederic Edwin Church|Frederic Church]] in upstate New York, in ''The Tastemakers'' and in the February 1965 issue of ''Harper's.''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schuyler|first=David|date=2016|title=Saving Olana|url=https://www.olana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/HRVR32_2_Schuyler-sm.pdf|journal=The Hudson River Valley Review|volume=32|issue=2 |pages=2–26}}</ref>


===Bibliography===
===Bibliography===
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*''Life in the Slow Lane'' (1991)
*''Life in the Slow Lane'' (1991)
*''The Lively Audience: A Social History of the Visual and Performing Arts inAmerica, 1890-1950.'' (1985)
*''The Lively Audience: A Social History of the Visual and Performing Arts inAmerica, 1890-1950.'' (1985)
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*''Snobs'' (1950)
*''Snobs'' (1950)
*''Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow'' (1949)
*''Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow'' (1949)
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In 1934, he married Mildred Akin (died 1999),<ref name="MildredObitNYT">{{cite news|title=Deaths LYNES, MILDRED AKIN|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/19/classified/paid-notice-deaths-lynes-mildred-akin.html|accessdate=23 August 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 August 1999}}</ref> who was a [[Vassar College|Vassar]] graduate, the step-daughter of artist [[Henry Ives Cobb, Jr.]] (1883–1974) and a granddaughter of [[George W. Wickersham]] (1858–1936), U.S. Attorney General under [[William Howard Taft]]. Together, they had two children:<ref name="RL"/>
In 1934, he married Mildred Akin (died 1999),<ref name="MildredObitNYT">{{cite news|title=Deaths LYNES, MILDRED AKIN|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/19/classified/paid-notice-deaths-lynes-mildred-akin.html|access-date=23 August 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 August 1999}}</ref> who was a [[Vassar College|Vassar]] graduate, the step-daughter of artist [[Henry Ives Cobb, Jr.]] (1883–1974) and a granddaughter of [[George W. Wickersham]] (1858–1936), U.S. Attorney General under [[William Howard Taft]]. Together, they had two children:<ref name="RL"/>
*George Platt Lynes II (died 2015),<ref name="MildredObitNYT"/> who married Jane Lynes.<ref name="GPL2ndObit">{{cite news|title=Deaths: LYNES, GEORGE PLATT II|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0DB143AF930A1575BC0A9639D8B63|accessdate=23 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=23 August 2015}}</ref>
*George Platt Lynes II (died 2015),<ref name="MildredObitNYT"/> who married Jane Lynes.<ref name="GPL2ndObit">{{cite news|title=Deaths: LYNES, GEORGE PLATT II|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0DB143AF930A1575BC0A9639D8B63|access-date=23 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=23 August 2015}}</ref>
*Elizabeth R. Lynes (1939–2015),<ref name="Graydon">{{cite news|last1=Graydon|first1=Megan|title=Elizabeth Hollander, Chicago planner under Harold Washington, dies at 75|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-elizabeth-hollander-obituary-met-20151027-story.html|accessdate=1 September 2016|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> who married [[Sidney Hollander Award|Sidney Hollander]]<ref name="MildredObitNYT"/> in 1962.<ref name="ElizabethWeddNYT">{{cite news|title=Elizabeth R. Lynes Married to Student|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402EFD8113AE13BBC4153DFBF668389679EDE&legacy=true|accessdate=23 August 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=9 September 1962}}</ref> They divorced and in 1997, she married [[Carl Kaestle]] (born 1940).<ref name="Graydon"/>
*Elizabeth R. Lynes (1939–2015),<ref name="Graydon">{{cite news|last1=Graydon|first1=Megan|title=Elizabeth Hollander, Chicago planner under Harold Washington, dies at 75|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-elizabeth-hollander-obituary-met-20151027-story.html|access-date=1 September 2016|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> who married [[Sidney Hollander Award|Sidney Hollander]]<ref name="MildredObitNYT"/> in 1962.<ref name="ElizabethWeddNYT">{{cite news|title=Elizabeth R. Lynes Married to Student|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/09/archives/elizabeth-r-lynes-married-to-student.html|access-date=23 August 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=9 September 1962}}</ref> They divorced and in 1997, she married [[Carl Kaestle]] (born 1940).<ref name="Graydon"/>


He died on September 14, 1991 in [[New York City]] at [[Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center]].<ref name="RL"/>
He died on September 14, 1991, in [[New York City]] at [[Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center]].<ref name="RL"/>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Russell Lynes}}
*[http://www.harpers.org/subjects/RussellLynes Harper's Magazine (Index of Writings)]
*[http://www.harpers.org/subjects/RussellLynes Harper's Magazine (Index of Writings)]
*[http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl%5Fcrosscollex/photoneg/oneITEM.asp?pid=39002041693996&iid=4169399&srchtype= Portrait of Russell Lynes]
*[http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl%5Fcrosscollex/photoneg/oneITEM.asp?pid=39002041693996&iid=4169399&srchtype= Portrait of Russell Lynes]
*[http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lynesr.htm Bio]
*[http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lynesr.htm Bio]
*[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1983/4/1983_4_42.shtml "Highbrow, Lowbrows, Middlebrow, Now: An Interview With Russell Lynes by John Brooks", ''American Heritage'', 1983]
*[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1983/4/1983_4_42.shtml "Highbrow, Lowbrows, Middlebrow, Now: An Interview With Russell Lynes by John Brooks", ''American Heritage'', 1983]
*[[hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.lynes|Russell Lynes Papers]]. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
*The [[hdl:1903.1/7855|Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wilkins papers]] at the [[University of Maryland Libraries]] contain correspondence with Russell Lynes.


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Latest revision as of 04:17, 15 September 2023

Russell Lynes
BornDecember 2, 1910
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
DiedSeptember 14, 1991 (aged 80)
New York City
OccupationArt historian, photographer, author, editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Notable worksThe Tastemakers, Snobs
SpouseMildred Akin
Children2

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.

Early life[edit]

Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide Sparkman and Joseph Russell Lynes.[1] His older brother was George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), the photographer. In 1932, he graduated from Yale University.[1]

Career[edit]

Lynes 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] Lynes was interested in historic preservation, notably and influentially writing about the threat to Olana, the home of Frederic Church in upstate New York, in The Tastemakers and in the February 1965 issue of Harper's.[2]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Life in the Slow Lane (1991)
  • The Lively Audience: A Social History of the Visual and Performing Arts inAmerica, 1890-1950. (1985)
  • The Art Makers: An Informal History of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture in Nineteenth Century America (1983)
  • More than meets the eye: The history and collections of Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design (1981)
  • Good Old Modern; an intimate portrait of the Museum of Modern Art (1973)[3]
  • The Art-Makers of Nineteenth Century America (1970)
  • Confessions of a Dilettante (1966)
  • The Domesticated Americans (1963)
  • Cadwallader: A Diversion (1959)
  • A Surfeit of Honey (1957)[4]
  • The Tastemakers (1954)
  • Guests (1951)
  • Snobs (1950)
  • Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow (1949)

Personal life[edit]

In 1934, he married Mildred Akin (died 1999),[5] who was a Vassar graduate, the step-daughter of artist Henry Ives Cobb, Jr. (1883–1974) and a granddaughter of George W. Wickersham (1858–1936), U.S. Attorney General under William Howard Taft. Together, they had two children:[1]

He died on September 14, 1991, in New York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Russell Lynes, 80, an Editor and Arbiter of Taste by Richard Severo, September 16, 1991, New York Times online retrieved February 18, 2008 obituary
  2. ^ Schuyler, David (2016). "Saving Olana" (PDF). The Hudson River Valley Review. 32 (2): 2–26.
  3. ^ New Criterion discussion of some of the issues that are fully discussed in Good Old Modern
  4. ^ "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
  5. ^ a b c "Deaths LYNES, MILDRED AKIN". The New York Times. 19 August 1999. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Deaths: LYNES, GEORGE PLATT II". The New York Times. 23 August 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  7. ^ a b Graydon, Megan (October 27, 2015). "Elizabeth Hollander, Chicago planner under Harold Washington, dies at 75". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Elizabeth R. Lynes Married to Student". The New York Times. 9 September 1962. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

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