Russell
Lawson

  Russell Lawson

Russell Lawson died as a result of bladder cancer. 
He went into the light on December 20, 2007. 
We are so thankful to have one of his artwork pieces.
 

Date of Birth: July 6, 1940
Place of Birth: Seattle,WA

Art Education
School of Visual Arts, New York City 1965
Burnley School of Art, Seattle, WA 1964
Cornish School of Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 1964

Solo Exhibitions
The Lawson Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993
East Hamption Town Marine Museum, New York 1979
Fairfield University, Connecticut 1971
Connecticut National Bank, Westport, Connecticut 1971
Sardi's, New York City 1968
Waverly Gallery, New York City, 1966
Joseph Winston Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland 1966
The Village Vanguard, New York City 1966

Exhibited At:
Gallery Madison/90, New York City
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Piccolo Mondo d'Arte, Palm Beach, Florida
Housatonic Community College, Stratford Connecticut
Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut
Dorsky Gallery, New York City
Braverman Gallery, New York City
Pancho Villa Restaurant, New York City
Shakespeare Theatre, New York City
Historical Society, Seattle, WA

Awards
U.S. Tobacco Co., Greenwich Award,
Silvermine Guild of Artists 1971
Citation for Merit, Society of Illustrators,
New York City 1969
Honorable Mention for painting "New Approach",
Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters Inc.
Honorable Mention,
1963 Collegiate Advertising Poster Contest,
Seattle, WA

Aspiring to follow in his mother's footsteps and go to Hollywood to be a stuntman Russell Lawson after high school thought jumping out of airplanes would be good  training, so he joined the 82nd Airborne. His mother, Dorothy Dunbar, the silent  screen star who played Jane in the 1927 film, "Tarzan and the Golden Lion", and who had been married to the heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer, told her son that the actors got the credit for what the stuntmen did, so Lawson instead jumped into the art world and moved to New York in 1965 to study at the School of Visual Arts.

"I have painted many different subjects over the years but have always enjoyed doing portraits and would always include the family's pets when they had them." says Russ, "and I encourage the clients to add their input so that the final outcome is a collaborative process."

Russell LAWSON died on December 20th, 2007 from bladder cancer. He was born in Seattle, WA on July 6th, 1940. He graduated from Roosevelt High School, Seattle in 1958, served in the 82nd Airborne and studied at the Burnley School of Art in Seattle and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He lived in Manhattan for five years and 20 years in Southampton, New York, He was represented by the JHS Gallery in Taos, New Mexico and was one of the founders of the Index Arts Festival in Index, WA. A member of the spiritual path Eckankar, Russell is survived by his wife, Yvonne and four children - Gary and Judy Lawson and their daughters, Melissa and Natalie of Coral Springs, FL; Tiffany and Zlatko Jalsovec of New York City; Hayley and Matthew James and their daughter, Hunter of Port Townsend, WA; and Eric Lawson of New York City. Also surviving are his twin brother, Richard and his wife, Julie and their daughter, Casey and son, Mack of Seattle, WA. He was predeceased by his mother, the silent screen actress, Dorothy Dunbar. A Celebration of Life will be held in the Spring of 2008 in Index, WA where he and his wife Yvonne lived.