History and Organization
Exhibition was opened on March 2, and worked up to 3 April, 1997. Catalog was published.Contributing Artists
There were exhibited 93 art works of 50 painters of the Leningrad School of Painting, Leningrad School: Taisia Afonina, Piotr Alberti, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Yuri Belov, Veniamin Borisov, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgeny Chuprun, Nikolai Galakhov, Tatiana Gorb, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev (painter), Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Mikhail Kozell, Vladimir Krantz, Ivan Lavsky, Boris Lavrenko, Piotr Litvinsky, Vladimir Malevsky, Valentina Monakhova, Mikhail Natarevich, Piotr Nazarov, Anatoli Nenartovich, Samuil Nevelshtein, Sergei Ivanovich Osipov, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Lev Orekhov, Victor Otiev, Nikolai Pozdneev, Evgeny Pozdniakov, Galina Rumiantseva, Kapitolina Rumiantseva, Lev Russov, Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, German Tatarinov, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Leonid Tkachenko (artist), Leonid Tkachenko, Anatoli Vasiliev, Piotr Vasiliev, Nina Veselova, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian.Contributed Artworks
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1950-1980s. Some of them were exhibited before, some paintings were shown for the first time. Genre painting was represented by the works of ''"Ica Cream Vender"'' by Veniamin Borisov, ''"At the Summer Bath house"'' by Maya Kopitseva, ''"Spring in the City"'' by Piotr Litvinsky, ''"Gas pipeline laying"'' and ''"Asphalt laying works"'' by Anatoli Nenartovich, ''"Spring Day"'' by Nikolai Pozdneev, ''"Station Baikal. At the pier"'' by Anatoli Vasiliev, and some others. Portrait painting was represented by the works of ''"Junior Sergeant"'' by Vladimir Chekalov, ''"Schoolgirl"'' by Tatiana Gorb, ''"In summer at reading"'' by Nikolai Pozdneev, ''"In the Sun"'' by Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov, Alexander Samokhvalov, "Old Man" by Leonid Tkachenko (artist), Leonid Tkachenko, and some others. Landscape and Cityscape painting was represented by the works of ''"Windy Day"'' by Irina Baldina, ''"Winter Tale"'' and ''"Arabian coast"'' by Vsevolod Bazhenov, ''"Be a full wind"'' and ''"Near Kostroma City"'' by Evgeny Chuprun, ''"On the Volga River"'' and ''"Somewhere in Karelia"'' by Nikolai Galakhov, ''"Autumn Road"'' by Mikhail Kozell, ''"Izborsk Fortress"'' by Sergei Ivanovich Osipov, Sergei Osipov, ''"Wave. Caspian Sea"'' and ''"Old Ladoga"'' by Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, ''"Little street"'' by Nikolai Timkov, ''"Silhouettes Gurzuf"'' by Ruben Zakharian, and some others. Still life painting was represented by the works of ''"Roses"'' by Samuil Nevelshtein, ''"Still life with Pussy-Willows"'' by Taisia Afonina, ''"Still life with yellow material"'' by Rostislav Vovkushevsky, "A Lilac" by Kapitolina Rumiantseva, and some others.Acknowledgment
Exhibition was widely covered in press and in literature specialized at Soviet fine art.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.405, 422.See also
* Fine Art of Leningrad * Leningrad School of Painting * Saint Petersburg Union of Artists * Socialist realismReferences
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