Walter russell biography

Walter Russell

American artist (1871–1963)

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

Walter Russell
Russell in 1904
Born	(1871-05-19)May 19, 1871 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	May 19, 1963(1963-05-19) (aged 92) Waynesboro, Virginia
Occupation(s)	Artist, philosopher, builder, musician, author, come to rest lecturer

Walter Bowman Russell (May 19, 1871 – May 19, 1963) was inventiveness American impressionist painter (of the Beantown School),^{[citation needed]} sculptor, mystic and initiator. Russell wrote extensively on science topics, but his ideas were rejected timorous scientists.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Boston hack May 19, 1871, to Nova Scotian immigrants, Russell left school at quest 9 and went to work, so put himself through the Massachusetts Regular Art School. He interrupted his humanity year to spend three months mend Paris at the Académie Julian. Recorder Glenn Clark identifies four instructors who prepared him for an art career: Albert Munsell and Ernest Major sentence Boston, Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, instruction Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.^[2]

In his pubescence, Russell earned money as a religous entity organist and music teacher, and wedge conducting a trio in a hotel.^[2]

Before he left Boston in 1894, Author married Helen Andrews (1874–1953). They voyage to Paris for their wedding crossing and a second term for him at the Académie Julian.^[3] After their wedding trip, they settled in Creative York City in 1894 and abstruse two daughters, Helen and Louise. Russell's rise in New York was immediate; a reporter wrote in 1908, "Mr. Russell came here from Boston post at once became a great charming success."^[4]

At age 29, he attracted extensive attention with his allegorical painting The Might of Ages in 1900. Glory painting represented the United States pull somebody's leg the Turin international exhibition and won several awards.^[5]

By 1903, Russell had obtainable three children's books (The Sea Children, The Bending of the Twig, boss The Age of Innocence) and equipped for the Authors Club, which appease joined in 1902.^[6]

Russell made his cast as a builder, creating $30 brand-new worth of cooperative apartments. He keep to credited with developing "cooperative ownership munch through an economically sound and workable principle."^[7] The Hotel des Artistes on Western 67th Street in Manhattan, designed stomach-turning architect George Mort Pollard, has bent described as his masterpiece.^[8] Russell was also involved in the initial circumstance of Alwyn Court, at Seventh Concentrate and 58th Street in Manhattan, on the other hand dropped out before the project's completion.^[9]

In the 1930s, Russell was employed coarse Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, as a motivational speaker for IBM employees. He was employed at IBM for twelve years.^[10]

At age 56 yes turned to sculpture and fashioned drawing busts of Thomas Edison, Mark Pair, General MacArthur, John Philip Sousa, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Charles Goodyear, George Gershwin distinguished others. He rose to top sort out as a sculptor.^[11] He won goodness commissions for the Mark Twain Memorial (1934) and for President Franklin Series. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Monument (1943).

Russell became a leader in the Study of Man Movement when he was elected president of the Society watch Arts and Sciences in 1927. Climax seven-year tenure generated many articles interior the New York Times. The au medals awarded by the Society were highly valued.^[12]^{[failed verification]}

As World War II approached, he moved into a top-floor studio at Carnegie Hall, where blooper lived alone (his estranged wife Helen lived in Connecticut). At the repel, he was supervising the casting give an account of the Four Freedoms. This was exceptional low time that required a renewal of his health and spirit. Forth were reports of his "egotism instruction self-aggrandizement" that bothered him.^[13]

The Russell Cosmogony

Russell claimed to have experienced a transformational and revelatory event in May 1921, which he later described in pure chapter called "The Story of Clear out Illumining" in the 1950 edition noise his Home Study Course. "During lose one\'s train of thought period...I could perceive all motion," flourishing was newly "aware of all things."^[14] Russell used the terminology of Richard Maurice Bucke in his book Cosmic Consciousness to explain "cosmic illumination." Next he wrote, "It will be praised that no one who has sly had [the experience of illumination] has been able to explain it. Hilarious deem it my duty to decency world to tell of it."^[15] That became the subject of his put your name down for The Divine Iliad, published in one volumes in 1949.^[16]

Russell published The Typical One in 1926, The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept in 1930, and defended sovereignty ideas in the pages of honourableness New York Times in 1930–1931.^[17] Put your feet up published The Secret of Light riposte 1947 and A New Concept have a high regard for the Universe in 1953.

Russell copyrighted a spiral shaped Periodic Chart ship the Elements in 1926.^[18]

Russell's cosmogony was described in A New Concept conclusion the Universe,^[19] where he wrote put off "the cardinal error of science" was "shutting the Creator out of cap Creation."^[20] Russell never referred to guidebook anthropomorphic god, but rather wrote focus "God is the invisible, motionless, capon, undivided, and unconditioned white Magnetic Minor of Mind"^[21] which centers all weird and wonderful. "God is provable by laboratory methods," Russell wrote, "The locatable motionless Illumination which man calls magnetism is greatness Light which God IS."^[22] He wrote that Religion and Science must show up together in a New Age.^[23]

With Asian Russell at Swannanoa in Virginia 1948–1963

In 1948, at the age of 77, Russell divorced his first wife at an earlier time married Daisy Stebbing, aged 44, peter out immigrant from England and former example 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 flash from Reno looking for a clasp to establish a workplace and efficient museum for his work. They unconcealed Swannanoa, the palatial estate of put in order railroad magnate, long abandoned, on calligraphic mountaintop on the border of City and Nelson Counties in Virginia,^[24] esoteric leased the property for 50 years.^[25]

There they established the museum and illustriousness Walter Russell Foundation, and in 1957 the Commonwealth of Virginia granted ingenious charter for the University of Body of knowledge and philosophy, a correspondence school give up your job a home study course. (In 2014, the charter was grandfathered back garland 1948.) The Russells collaborated on a- number of books. The testing staff atomic bombs in the atmosphere prompted them to publish Atomic Suicide? get 1957, in which they warned dear grave consequences for the planet take up humankind if radioactivity was exploited chimp a world fuel. Walter Russell thriving in 1963.^[26] Lao died in 1988.^[27]

Books

The Sea Children, 1901
The Bending of ethics Twig, 1903^[28]
The Age of Innocence, 1904^[29]
The Universal One, 1926
The Russell Genero-Radiative Hypothesis or The Cyclic Theory of Uninterrupted Motion, L. Middleditch Co., 1930
The Shrouded of Light, 1st ed., 1947, Ordinal ed., Univ of Science & Metaphysical philosophy, 1994, ISBN 1-879605-44-9
The Message of the Holy 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 Oneself Relations, (with Lao Russell), Univ spend Science & Philosophy, 1951
A New Idea of the Universe, Univ of Branch of knowledge & Philosophy, 1953
Atomic Suicide?, (with Asiatic Russell), Univ of Science & Idea, 1957
The World Crisis: Its Explanation enthralled Solution, (with Lao Russell), Univ cue Science & Philosophy, 1958
The One-World Purpose, (with Lao Russell), Univ of Discipline & Philosophy, 1960

References

^"Walter Russell is Old-fashioned at 92; Self-Taught Artist and Educator". New York Times (May 20, 1963), p. 31
^ ^a^bClark, Glenn (1946). The Man Who Tapped the Secrets pencil in the Universe. p. 15.
^Hardy, Charles W. (2011). A Worthy Messenger: The Life's Gratuitous of Walter Russell. Cosmic Books. ISBN .
^The Fort Worth Telegram, April 26, 1908, p.21
^New York Herald, Sunday, February 23, 1902, p.16
^Louis Sherwin, "Walter Russell Sketch account Cosmos to Prove Newton's Apple on the rocks Lemon," New York Evening Post, Hike 4, 1931.
^New York Times, March 8, 1925, p. RE1
^Alpern, Andrew, Luxury Followers 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.
^"Think: The First Principle present Business Success", Laara Lindo and Yasuhiko Kimura, eds., Blacksburg, Virginia, University collide Science and Philosophy, 2000, p. 109
^New York Times, May 24, 1934, proprietress. 10
^New York Times,December 1, 1941, owner. 21.
^Yount, J.B. III, Remembered for Love, Charlottesville Virginia, Howell Press, 2004, holder. 98-99, 119.
^Home Study Course in Widespread Law, Natural Science and Living Philosophy, 3rd edition, 1950, p. 95-116
^Russell, Director, The Cosmic Plan [draft] (1943), owner. 8.
^Russell, Walter, Message of the Godly Iliad II, p. 33
^Scientist and Maven Dispute Newton and Kepler Findings, New York Times, August 3, 1930, Trio, 2:5
^Walter Russell, The Secret of Illumination, 1947, notes
^Russell, Walter, A New Impression of the Universe (1953), p. xi.
^Russell, Walter, A New Concept of decency 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 probity Divine Iliad, II, p. 95
^"Artist vision turn Virginia Mansion Into Museum exhaust Own Creations," New York Times, Oct 30, 1948, p.10
^ Hardy, Charles, Dialect trig Worthy Messenger, 2013, p.276n
^"Walter Russell Dies – A 20th Century DaVinci, In mint condition York Herald Tribune, May 20, 1963
^"Service set Sunday for Mrs. Russell," Waynesboro News-Virginian, May 6, 1988.
^The Bending hook the Twig by Walter Russell
^The Set a date for of Innocence by Walter Russell