Walter Russell

Background

Russell, Walter was born on May 19, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jacob and Melinda Russell.

Education

Educated Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Academy Julian, Paris, pupil of Albert Munsell, Ernest Major, Howard Pyle, and Jean Paul Laurens. Honorary Doctor of Science, American Academy Sciences, 1941.

Career

Illustrator for New York magazines, 1890-1897. Artist and correspondent during Spanish-American War for Century Magazine and Collier’s Weekly. Formerly devoted attention to specialty of painting children's portraits and child subjects.

Painted portraits of children of President Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-Governor Ames of Massachusetts, and other prominent people of the United States and many in Europe.

Also one allegory, “The Might of Ages,” exhibited at Turin Expedition. Sculptor, since 1927.

Appointed sculptor Mark Twain Memorial, Hannibal, Missouri. Executed Memorial to Charles Goodyear for Akron, Ohio.

Jean d’Arc memorial for presentation to France.

Colossal bust of Mark Twain to be erected in Victoria Embankment Garden, London. Colossal bust of Frank-Doctorate. Roosevelt for Federal Building, New York World’s Fair. Also a colossal bust called “The War President,” for Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park, New New York

Colin Kelly Memorial, Madison, Florida.

The Four Freedoms, Washington, tribute to American soldier, 1950. Statue The Christ of Blue Ridge (with Lao Russell), Virginia, 1950.

Among other sculpture works: Busts of Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Thomas J. Watson, Sir Thomas Lipton, Victor Herbert, John Phillip Sousa, et cetera Originator, in 1899, of tenant ownership, or coöperative plan of home ownership and built the Artists’ Colony, 67th Saint, New York, on this plan, 1899-1914, also “Pierres,” 290 Park Avenue, New York, 1920.

Maintains laboratory for scientific research, mainly electrical and chemical Founder New York Skating Club, president, 1916.

Introduced figure skating in the United States Founded Walter Russell Foundation (with Lao Russell), 1948, name changed to U. Science and Philosophy, 1957, vice president

Achievements

• Walter Russell has been listed as a notable artist, scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society Arts and Sciences (president emeritus), Numismatic Society, Academy Fine Arts and Literature (Spain).

Connections

Married Helen Andrews, January 10, 1894. Married second, Lao Stebbing, July 29, 1948.

Father:

Jacob Russell

Mother:

Melinda Russell

Spouse:

Lao Stebbing

Spouse:

Helen Andrews