Russell Lynes (Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.; December 2, 1910 – September 14, 1991) was an Americanart historian,photographer, author and managing editor ofHarper's Magazine.
Lynes started as a clerk atHarper & Brothers, the publishing house, from 1932 to 1936 and was director of publications atVassar in 1936 and 1937. He then took a job at theShipley School inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he was assistant principal from 1937 to 1940, then principal until 1944. He then joinedHarper's Magazine as an assistant editor and became managing editor in 1947, a position he would hold for the next twenty years.[1] Lynes was interested in historic preservation, notably and influentially writing about the threat toOlana, the home ofFrederic Church in upstate New York, inThe Tastemakers and in the February 1965 issue ofHarper's.[2]
^abcdeRussell Lynes, 80, an Editor and Arbiter of Taste by Richard Severo, September 16, 1991,New York Timesonline retrieved February 18, 2008 obituary
^Schuyler, David (2016)."Saving Olana"(PDF).The Hudson River Valley Review.32 (2):2–26.
^"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
