10 Facts About Walter Russell

Walter Bowman Russell was an American impressionist painter, sculptor, and author.

Walter Russell interrupted his fourth year to spend three months in Paris at the Academie Julian.

Walter Russell made his mark as a builder, creating $30 million worth of cooperative apartments.

Walter Russell was involved in the initial development of Alwyn Court, at Seventh Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, but dropped out before the project's completion.

Walter Russell won the commissions for the Mark Twain Memorial and for President Franklin D Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Monument.

Walter Russell became a leader in the Science of Man Movement when he was elected president of the Society of Arts and Sciences in 1927.

Walter Russell claimed to have experienced a transformational and revelatory event in May 1921, which he later described in a chapter called "The Story of My Illumining" in the 1950 edition of his Home Study Course.

Walter Russell published The Secret of Light in 1947 and A New Concept of the Universe in 1953.

In 1948, at the age of 77, Walter Russell divorced his first wife and married Daisy Stebbing, aged 44, an immigrant from England and former model and businesswoman, amid some controversy.

Walter Russell changed her name to Lao and they embarked on a cross-country automobile trip from Reno looking for a place to establish a workplace and a museum for his work.