Anthony Russell 

Anthony Russell was born in London and graduated with a degree in graphic design from Hornsey College of Art. This was an institution with a very broad range of disciplines in the graphic and fine arts. He studied drawing, lithography, etching, typography, painting and sculpture. Between studies, Tony worked as a sign painter, silk screen printer and early morning milk deliveryman.

He served in the Royal Engineers for two years as mandated at that time (you would not consider him a military man). As part of a mobile map making squadron in Germany, he continued to draw and paint and traveled extensively throughout Europe when time permitted. Back home and after three years of freelance designing and teaching, he was married to his wife, Jean.

Tony then emigrated to the New York. After a period of freelancing, he founded Russell Design, an award-winning design firm, with a roster of clients that included corporations, cultural institutions and non-profits, both domestic and international. He also served as president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts antaught design at NYU and Cooper Union.

In 2008, his company became the branding and environmental graphics associate of Perkins Eastman, New York’s largest architectural firm.

On retiring in 2020, he built a studio in the roof of his 1836 Captain’s House in in historic South Jamesport on the North Fork of Long Island. After an initial period of experimentation with both approach and subject matter, Tony gravitated towards a mix of drawing, collage and cubism that serves his artistic voice. Influences are obvious: Juan Gris for his most inventive Cubism; Georges Braque for his quiet lyricism; Stuart Davis for his use of signs, products and letter forms and lastly, especially to David Hockney (with whom he taught briefly) for his marvelous drawings, paintings, printmaking.

His immediate domestic surroundings on the North Fork, and its farm buildings and landscape were featured in his first solo exhibit “North Fork Narratives” at the William Ris Gallery in Jamesport, Long Island     

Contact Information:
T: 917 539 2217
E: a.jamesport@gmail.com