Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Vasily Surikov

Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) was a Russian painter of historical scenes and portraits.

City Girl. Portrait of Alexandra Ivanovna Emelianova, nee Schrader (1902)

 Monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg (1870)

 Morning of the Execution of Streltsy by Tsar Peter I (1881)

 Portrait of L.T. Matorin (1892)

 Portrait of N.F. Matveeva (1909)

 Portrait of Princess P.I. Scherbatova (1910)

Russian Troops under Suvorov Crossing the Alps (1899)

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Alexei Savrasov

Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) was a Russian landscape painter.

A Spring Day (1873)

 Early Spring, High Water (1868)

 Evening. Migration of Birds (1874)

 Forest in the Frost (1890)

 The Rooks Have Come Back (1871)

 Rural View (1867)

 The Rye Field (1881)

 Spring Thaw, Yaroslavl (1874)

Sukharev Tower (1872)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

Your Monday dose of Aivazovsky.

Frigate Under Sail (1838)

 Frozen Bosphorus Under Snow (detail) (1874)

 Gunboat off Crete (1897)

 Ice on the Dniepr River (1872)

 Ice-Breakers on the Frozen Neva in St. Petersburg (1877)

 Icebergs in Antarctica (1870)

 In the Storm (1872)

 Lake Maggiore in the Evening (1858)

 Little Russian Ox Cart in Winter (1866)

 Loading Provisions off the Crimean Coast (1876)

Marine

Friday, August 3, 2012

Abram Arkhipov

Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) was a Russian realist painter.

Down the Oka River (1890)

 Ice Has Gone (1895)

 Laundresses (ca. 1898)

 Radonitsa (Before Mass) (1892)

Reverse Route (1896)

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) was a Russian painter.

 At the School Door (1897)

 Breakfast

 By the Green Lamp

 Country Friends (1912)

 Crossing

 Mental Arithmetic in the Public School of S. Rachinskiy (1895)

 New Tale (1891)

 Reading a Letter (1892)

 Reading the Newspaper. War News (1905)

Schoolgirls (1901)

Sunday Reading in Village School (1895)

The Teacher's Guests

 The Teacher's Name-Day

 Virtuoso (1891)

Visit of the Unhealthy Teacher (1897)

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Nikolay Dubovskoy

Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859-1918) was a Russian landscape painter.

 A Rainbow (1892)

 Dacha in Sillamyagi (1907)

 Evening in Ukraine

 Frosty Morning (1894)

Silence Has Settled (1890)

 The Rainbow

 Seascape

 The Volga River (1894)

Twilight (1897)