Critic John Russell Dies at 89
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | August 25, 2008
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ShareJohn Russell, lead art critic for the New York Times from 1982 through 1990, died Saturday at the age of 89, the newspaper reported Sunday.
An Englishman, Russell had come to New York from the Times of London, where, in the years after World War II, he played a significant role in advocating the work of the now-canonical postwar British artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, among others.
