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词条 Russell Lynes
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Bibliography 

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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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.

Early life

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

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]

Bibliography

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  • 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)[2]
  • 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)[3]
  • The Tastemakers (1954)
  • Guests (1951)
  • Snobs (1950)
  • Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow (1949)
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Personal life

In 1934, he married Mildred Akin (died 1999),[4] 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]

  • George Platt Lynes II (died 2015),[4] who married Jane Lynes.[5]
  • Elizabeth R. Lynes (1939–2015),[6] who married Sidney Hollander[4] in 1962.[7] They divorced and in 1997, she married Carl Kaestle (born 1940).[6]

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

References

1. ^Russell Lynes, 80, an Editor and Arbiter of Taste by Richard Severo, September 16, 1991, New York Times [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DC103EF935A2575AC0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 online] retrieved February 18, 2008 obituary
2. ^New Criterion discussion of some of the issues that are fully discussed in Good Old Modern
3. ^"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
4. ^{{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}}
5. ^{{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}}
6. ^{{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}}
7. ^{{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|accessdate=23 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=9 September 1962}}

External links

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  • Harper's Magazine (Index of Writings)
  • Portrait of Russell Lynes
  • Bio
  • "Highbrow, Lowbrows, Middlebrow, Now: An Interview With Russell Lynes by John Brooks", American Heritage, 1983
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8 : 1910 births|1991 deaths|People from Great Barrington, Massachusetts|Yale University alumni|Vassar College staff|American art historians|20th-century American historians|Historians from Massachusetts

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