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Walter Russell

May 05, 2023

For the Georgia politician, see Walter B. Russell Jr. For the British painter, see Walter Westley Russell.

Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was an impressionist American painter (of the Boston School), sculptor, autodidact and author. His lectures and writing place him firmly in the New Thought Movement.[1] Russell wrote extensively on science topics, but these writings "were not taken seriously by scientists."[2]

Walter Russell
Born(1871-05-19)May 19, 1871
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedMay 19, 1963(1963-05-19) (aged 92)
Waynesboro, Virginia
Occupation(s)Artist, philosopher, builder, musician, author and lecturer

Life and career

Born in Boston on May 19, 1871, to Nova Scotian immigrants, Russell left school at age 9 and went to work, then put himself through the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He interrupted his fourth year to spend three months in Paris at the Académie Julian. Biographer Glenn Clark identifies four instructors who prepared him for an art career: Albert Munsell and Ernest Major in Boston, Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.[3]

In his youth, Russell earned money as a church organist and music teacher, and by conducting a trio in a hotel.[3]

Before he left Boston in 1894, Russell married Helen Andrews (1874–1953). They traveled to Paris for their wedding trip and a second term for him at the Académie Julian.[4] After their wedding trip, they settled in New York City in 1894 and had two daughters, Helen and Louise. Russell's rise in New York was immediate; a reporter wrote in 1908, "Mr. Russell came here from Boston and at once became a great artistic success."[5]

Walter Russell's careers as an illustrator, correspondent in the Spanish–American War, child portrait painter and builder are detailed in several questionnaires he answered and submitted to Who's Who in America.[6]

At age 29, he attracted widespread attention with his allegorical painting The Might of Ages in 1900. The painting represented the United States at the Turin international exhibition and won several awards.[7]

By 1903, Russell had published three children's books (The Sea Children, The Bending of the Twig, and The Age of Innocence) and qualified for the Authors Club, which he joined in 1902.[8]

Russell made his mark as a builder, creating $30 million worth of cooperative apartments. He is credited with developing "cooperative ownership into an economically sound and workable principle."[9] The Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street in Manhattan, designed by architect George Mort Pollard, has been described as his masterpiece.[10] Russell was also involved in the initial development of Alwyn Court, at Seventh Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, but dropped out before the project's completion.[11]

In the 1930s, Russell was employed by Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, as a motivational speaker for IBM employees. He was employed at IBM for twelve years.[12]

At age 56 he turned to sculpture and fashioned portrait busts of Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, General MacArthur, John Philip Sousa, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Charles Goodyear, George Gershwin and others. He rose to top rank as a sculptor.[13] He won the commissions for the Mark Twain Memorial (1934) and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Monument (1943).

Russell became a leader in the Science of Man Movement when he was elected president of the Society of Arts and Sciences in 1927. His seven-year tenure generated many articles in the New York Times. The gold medals awarded by the Society were highly valued.[14]'

As World War II approached, he moved into a top-floor studio at Carnegie Hall, where he lived alone (his estranged wife Helen lived in Connecticut). At the time, he was supervising the casting of the Four Freedoms. This was a low time that required a rejuvenation of his health and spirit. There were reports of his "egotism and self-aggrandizement" that bothered him.[15]

The Russell Cosmogony

In May 1921 Russell claimed to have experienced a transformational, revelatory event that he later described in a chapter called "The Story of My Illumining" in the 1950 edition of his Home Study Course. "During that period...I could perceive all motion," and was newly "aware of all things."[16] Russell used the terminology of Richard Maurice Bucke in his book Cosmic Consciousness[17] to explain "cosmic illumination." Later he wrote, "It will be remembered that no one who has ever had [the experience of illumination] has been able to explain it. I deem it my duty to the world to tell of it."[18] Russell's supposed knowledge gained "in the Light" is the subject matter of his book The Divine Iliad, published in two volumes in 1949.[19]

After five years Russell published The Universal One (1926) and The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept (1930) and defended his ideas in the pages of the New York Times in 1930–1931.[20] He later published The Secret of Light (1947) and A New Concept of the Universe (1953).

Russell copyrighted a spiral shaped Periodic Chart of the Elements in 1926.[21]

The Russell Cosmogony was described in his treatise, A New Concept of the Universe[22] where he wrote that "the cardinal error of science" was "shutting the Creator out of his Creation."[23] Russell never referred to an anthropomorphic god, but rather wrote that "God is the invisible, motionless, sexless, undivided, and unconditioned white Magnetic Light of Mind"[24] which centers all things. "God is provable by laboratory methods," Russell wrote, "The locatable motionless Light which man calls magnetism is the Light which God IS."[25] He wrote that Religion and Science must come together in a New Age.[26]

With Lao Russell at Swannanoa in Virginia 1948–1963

In 1948, at the age of 77, Russell divorced his first wife and married Daisy Stebbing, aged 44, an immigrant from England and former model and businesswoman, amid some controversy. She changed her name to Lao (after Lao-Tzu, the Chinese illuminate) and they embarked on a cross-country automobile trip from Reno looking for a place to establish a workplace and a museum for his work. They discovered Swannanoa, the palatial estate of a railroad magnate, long abandoned, on a mountaintop on the border of Augusta and Nelson Counties in Virginia,[27] and leased the property for 50 years.[28]

There they established the museum and the Walter Russell Foundation, and in 1957 the Commonwealth of Virginia granted a charter for the University of Science and philosophy, a correspondence school with a home study course. (In 2014, the charter was grandfathered back to 1948.) The Russells collaborated on a number of books. The testing of atomic bombs in the atmosphere prompted them to publish Atomic Suicide? in 1957, in which they warned of grave consequences for the planet and humankind if radioactivity was exploited as a world fuel. Walter Russell died in 1963.[29] Lao died in 1988.[30]

Books

  • The Sea Children, 1901
  • The Bending of the Twig, 1903[31]
  • The Age of Innocence, 1904[32]
  • The Universal One, 1926
  • The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept or The Cyclic Theory of Continuous Motion, L. Middleditch Co., 1930
  • The Secret of Light, 1st ed., 1947, 3rd ed., Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1994, ISBN 1-879605-44-9
  • The Message of the Divine Iliad, vol. 1, 1948, vol. 2, 1949
  • The Book of Early Whisperings, 1949
  • The Home Study Course, (with Lao Russell), 1st ed., 1950–52
  • Scientific Answer to Human Relations, (with Lao Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1951
  • A New Concept of the Universe, Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1953
  • Atomic Suicide?, (with Lao Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1957
  • The World Crisis: Its Explanation and Solution, (with Lao Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1958
  • The One-World Purpose, (with Lao Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1960

References

  1. ^ Braden, Charles S. Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought, p. 376, Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.
  2. ^ "Walter Russell is Dead at 92; Self-Taught Artist and Educator". New York Times (May 20, 1963), p. 31
  3. ^ a b Clark, Glenn (1946). The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe. p. 15.
  4. ^ Hardy, Charles W. (2011). A Worthy Messenger: The Life's Work of Walter Russell. Cosmic Books. ISBN 978-0-615-88732-6.
  5. ^ The Fort Worth Telegram, April 26, 1908, p.21
  6. ^ "How do you get into Who's Who?" Preface, Who's Who in America, v.29 Chicago: Marquis, 1956, p. 7.
  7. ^ New York Herald, Sunday, February 23, 1902, p.16
  8. ^ Louis Sherwin, "Walter Russell Painting Cosmos to Prove Newton's Apple a Lemon," New York Evening Post, March 4, 1931.
  9. ^ New York Times, March 8, 1925, p. RE1
  10. ^ Alpern, Andrew, Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan, New York, Dover Publications, 1975, pp. 43–49
  11. ^ Gray, Christopher (1997-04-06). "The Lavish 'Studio Palace' Called Alwyn Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-10.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Think: The First Principle of Business Success", Laara Lindo and Yasuhiko Kimura, eds., Blacksburg, Virginia, University of Science and Philosophy, 2000, p. 109
  13. ^ New York Times, May 24, 1934, p. 10
  14. ^ New York Times,December 1, 1941, p. 21.
  15. ^ Yount, J.B. III, Remembered for Love, Charlottesville Virginia, Howell Press, 2004, p. 98-99, 119.
  16. ^ Home Study Course in Universal Law, Natural Science and Living Philosophy, 3rd edition, 1950, p. 95-116
  17. ^ Cosmic Consciousness, New York, E.P. Dutton, 1902
  18. ^ Russell, Walter, The Cosmic Plan [draft] (1943), p. 8.
  19. ^ Russell, Walter, Message of the Divine Iliad II, p. 33
  20. ^ Scientist and Artist Dispute Newton and Kepler Findings, New York Times, August 3, 1930, III, 2:5
  21. ^ Walter Russell, The Secret of Light, 1947, notes
  22. ^ Russell, Walter, A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. xi.
  23. ^ Russell, Walter, A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. 6
  24. ^ Russell, Walter, "Atomic Suicide?" (1957), p. 106
  25. ^ Russell, Walter A New Concept of the Universe" (1953), p. 4.
  26. ^ Russell, Walter, The Message of the Divine Iliad, II, p. 95
  27. ^ "Artist to turn Virginia Mansion Into Museum of Own Creations," New York Times, October 30, 1948, p.10
  28. ^ Hardy, Charles, A Worthy Messenger, 2013, p.276n
  29. ^ "Walter Russell Dies – A 20th Century DaVinci, New York Herald Tribune, May 20, 1963
  30. ^ "Service set Sunday for Mrs. Russell," Waynesboro News-Virginian, May 6, 1988.
  31. ^ The Bending of the Twig by Walter Russell
  32. ^ The Age of Innocence by Walter Russell

Further reading

  • Binder, Timothy A., In the Wave Lies the Secret of Creation, (contains many unpublished drawings of Walter Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1995, ISBN 1-879605-45-7

External links

  •   Media related to Walter Russell at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Quotations related to Walter Russell at Wikiquote
  • The University of Science and Philosophy

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Russell wrote extensively on science topics but these writings were not taken seriously by scientists 2 Walter RussellBorn 1871 05 19 May 19 1871Boston MassachusettsDiedMay 19 1963 1963 05 19 aged 92 Waynesboro VirginiaOccupation s Artist philosopher builder musician author and lecturer Contents 1 Life and career 2 The Russell Cosmogony 3 With Lao Russell at Swannanoa in Virginia 1948 1963 4 Books 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksLife and career EditBorn in Boston on May 19 1871 to Nova Scotian immigrants Russell left school at age 9 and went to work then put himself through the Massachusetts Normal Art School He interrupted his fourth year to spend three months in Paris at the Academie Julian Biographer Glenn Clark identifies four instructors who prepared him for an art career Albert Munsell and Ernest Major in Boston Howard Pyle in Philadelphia and Jean Paul Laurens in Paris 3 In his youth Russell earned money as a church organist and music teacher and by conducting a trio in a hotel 3 Before he left Boston in 1894 Russell married Helen Andrews 1874 1953 They traveled to Paris for their wedding trip and a second term for him at the Academie Julian 4 After their wedding trip they settled in New York City in 1894 and had two daughters Helen and Louise Russell s rise in New York was immediate a reporter wrote in 1908 Mr Russell came here from Boston and at once became a great artistic success 5 Walter Russell s careers as an illustrator correspondent in the Spanish American War child portrait painter and builder are detailed in several questionnaires he answered and submitted to Who s Who in America 6 At age 29 he attracted widespread attention with his allegorical painting The Might of Ages in 1900 The painting represented the United States at the Turin international exhibition and won several awards 7 By 1903 Russell had published three children s books The Sea Children The Bending of the Twig and The Age of Innocence and qualified for the Authors Club which he joined in 1902 8 Russell made his mark as a builder creating 30 million worth of cooperative apartments He is credited with developing cooperative ownership into an economically sound and workable principle 9 The Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street in Manhattan designed by architect George Mort Pollard has been described as his masterpiece 10 Russell was also involved in the initial development of Alwyn Court at Seventh Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan but dropped out before the project s completion 11 In the 1930s Russell was employed by Thomas J Watson chairman of IBM as a motivational speaker for IBM employees He was employed at IBM for twelve years 12 At age 56 he turned to sculpture and fashioned portrait busts of Thomas Edison Mark Twain General MacArthur John Philip Sousa Ossip Gabrilowitsch Charles Goodyear George Gershwin and others He rose to top rank as a sculptor 13 He won the commissions for the Mark Twain Memorial 1934 and for President Franklin D Roosevelt s Four Freedoms Monument 1943 Russell became a leader in the Science of Man Movement when he was elected president of the Society of Arts and Sciences in 1927 His seven year tenure generated many articles in the New York Times The gold medals awarded by the Society were highly valued 14 As World War II approached he moved into a top floor studio at Carnegie Hall where he lived alone his estranged wife Helen lived in Connecticut At the time he was supervising the casting of the Four Freedoms This was a low time that required a rejuvenation of his health and spirit There were reports of his egotism and self aggrandizement that bothered him 15 The Russell Cosmogony EditThis section relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources November 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message In May 1921 Russell claimed to have experienced a transformational revelatory event that he later described in a chapter called The Story of My Illumining in the 1950 edition of his Home Study Course During that period I could perceive all motion and was newly aware of all things 16 Russell used the terminology of Richard Maurice Bucke in his book Cosmic Consciousness 17 to explain cosmic illumination Later he wrote It will be remembered that no one who has ever had the experience of illumination has been able to explain it I deem it my duty to the world to tell of it 18 Russell s supposed knowledge gained in the Light is the subject matter of his book The Divine Iliad published in two volumes in 1949 19 After five years Russell published The Universal One 1926 and The Russell Genero Radiative Concept 1930 and defended his ideas in the pages of the New York Times in 1930 1931 20 He later published The Secret of Light 1947 and A New Concept of the Universe 1953 Russell copyrighted a spiral shaped Periodic Chart of the Elements in 1926 21 The Russell Cosmogony was described in his treatise A New Concept of the Universe 22 where he wrote that the cardinal error of science was shutting the Creator out of his Creation 23 Russell never referred to an anthropomorphic god but rather wrote that God is the invisible motionless sexless undivided and unconditioned white Magnetic Light of Mind 24 which centers all things God is provable by laboratory methods Russell wrote The locatable motionless Light which man calls magnetism is the Light which God IS 25 He wrote that Religion and Science must come together in a New Age 26 With Lao Russell at Swannanoa in Virginia 1948 1963 EditIn 1948 at the age of 77 Russell divorced his first wife and married Daisy Stebbing aged 44 an immigrant from England and former model and businesswoman amid some controversy She changed her name to Lao after Lao Tzu the Chinese illuminate and they embarked on a cross country automobile trip from Reno looking for a place to establish a workplace and a museum for his work They discovered Swannanoa the palatial estate of a railroad magnate long abandoned on a mountaintop on the border of Augusta and Nelson Counties in Virginia 27 and leased the property for 50 years 28 There they established the museum and the Walter Russell Foundation and in 1957 the Commonwealth of Virginia granted a charter for the University of Science and philosophy a correspondence school with a home study course In 2014 the charter was grandfathered back to 1948 The Russells collaborated on a number of books The testing of atomic bombs in the atmosphere prompted them to publish Atomic Suicide in 1957 in which they warned of grave consequences for the planet and humankind if radioactivity was exploited as a world fuel Walter Russell died in 1963 29 Lao died in 1988 30 Books EditThe Sea Children 1901 The Bending of the Twig 1903 31 The Age of Innocence 1904 32 The Universal One 1926 The Russell Genero Radiative Concept or The Cyclic Theory of Continuous Motion L Middleditch Co 1930 The Secret of Light 1st ed 1947 3rd ed Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1994 ISBN 1 879605 44 9 The Message of the Divine Iliad vol 1 1948 vol 2 1949 The Book of Early Whisperings 1949 The Home Study Course with Lao Russell 1st ed 1950 52 Scientific Answer to Human Relations with Lao Russell Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1951 A New Concept of the Universe Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1953 Atomic Suicide with Lao Russell Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1957 The World Crisis Its Explanation and Solution with Lao Russell Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1958 The One World Purpose with Lao Russell Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1960References Edit Braden Charles S Spirits in Rebellion The Rise and Development of New Thought p 376 Southern Methodist University Press 1963 Walter Russell is Dead at 92 Self Taught Artist and Educator New York Times May 20 1963 p 31 a b Clark Glenn 1946 The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe p 15 Hardy Charles W 2011 A Worthy Messenger The Life s Work of Walter Russell Cosmic Books ISBN 978 0 615 88732 6 The Fort Worth Telegram April 26 1908 p 21 How do you get into Who s Who Preface Who s Who in America v 29 Chicago Marquis 1956 p 7 New York Herald Sunday February 23 1902 p 16 Louis Sherwin Walter Russell Painting Cosmos to Prove Newton s Apple a Lemon New York Evening Post March 4 1931 New York Times March 8 1925 p RE1 Alpern Andrew Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan New York Dover Publications 1975 pp 43 49 Gray Christopher 1997 04 06 The Lavish Studio Palace Called Alwyn Court The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2020 12 10 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Think The First Principle of Business Success Laara Lindo and Yasuhiko Kimura eds Blacksburg Virginia University of Science and Philosophy 2000 p 109 New York Times May 24 1934 p 10 New York Times December 1 1941 p 21 Yount J B III Remembered for Love Charlottesville Virginia Howell Press 2004 p 98 99 119 Home Study Course in Universal Law Natural Science and Living Philosophy 3rd edition 1950 p 95 116 Cosmic Consciousness New York E P Dutton 1902 Russell Walter The Cosmic Plan draft 1943 p 8 Russell Walter Message of the Divine Iliad II p 33 Scientist and Artist Dispute Newton and Kepler Findings New York Times August 3 1930 III 2 5 Walter Russell The Secret of Light 1947 notes Russell Walter A New Concept of the Universe 1953 p xi Russell Walter A New Concept of the Universe 1953 p 6 Russell Walter Atomic Suicide 1957 p 106 Russell Walter A New Concept of the Universe 1953 p 4 Russell Walter The Message of the Divine Iliad II p 95 Artist to turn Virginia Mansion Into Museum of Own Creations New York Times October 30 1948 p 10 Hardy Charles A Worthy Messenger 2013 p 276n Walter Russell Dies A 20th Century DaVinci New York Herald Tribune May 20 1963 Service set Sunday for Mrs Russell Waynesboro News Virginian May 6 1988 The Bending of the Twig by Walter Russell The Age of Innocence by Walter RussellFurther reading EditBinder Timothy A In the Wave Lies the Secret of Creation contains many unpublished drawings of Walter Russell Univ of Science amp Philosophy 1995 ISBN 1 879605 45 7External links Edit Media related to Walter Russell at Wikimedia Commons Quotations related to Walter Russell at Wikiquote The University of Science and Philosophy Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Walter Russell amp oldid 1151705632, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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