User:DianaID19/sandbox

</ref>

This is the user sandbox of DianaID19. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here. Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Template sandbox Finished writing a draft article? Are you ready to request review of it by an experienced editor for possible inclusion in Wikipedia? Submit your draft for review!

Alfred Russell (May 27, 1920 - September 22, 2007) was an artist who was a member of the early

Russell, active in abstract circles in New York until 1953, was regularly included in The Whitney Annual as well as being part of seven exhibits of MOMA's "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America". In New York he had three solo shows at the Peridot Gallery as well as being in early Abstract Expressionist group shows at the Sidney Janis Gallery, the Kootz Gallery and at the Galerie de France in Paris ^[2]

Russell caustically renounced avant-garde abstraction in a Symposium on the Human Figure in 1953. ^[3] Thereafter, Russell painted mainly in classically and surreastically figurative styles that still showed influence of abstractionism. His last New York exhibit was at the Tatischeff Gallery in 1979 as his later work was rarely exhibited.

Receiving his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he studied at the Art Student's League and earned a master's degree at Columbia. Teaching at the M.F.A program at Brooklyn College from 1946 until 1976, when he retired, Russell influenced many younger artists in figurative painting including Gabriel Laderman, a leader in the Realist movement in the 1960's and 1970's. ^[4]

He is represented in the collections of the

External links