Alfred Russell (May 27, 1920 - September 22, 2007)[1] was an artist who was a member of the early New York school of Abstract Expressionism.

He exhibited in Paris and New York along with such well known painters as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko.

Later in life, Russell, disillusioned with abstraction, turned to figurative painting, with inspiration from the classical world.

In addition to producing stylistically controversial work, after the 1950s, his latent anti-Semitism had become exposed and he had essentially destroyed any chance for a continuing career outside of academia.

Teaching at the M.F.A program at Brooklyn College from 1946 until 1976, when he retired, Russell influenced many younger artists in figurative painting including Gabriel Laderman.