Autumn Exhibition (Leningrad, 1978)

Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978. Catalog
Year	1978
Location	Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls, Leningrad

Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978 (Russian: Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1978 года) opened in Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and became one of the largest art exhibitions of 1978 in the USSR.

History and Organization

A special exhibition committee which consisted of the most authoritative art-experts was formed to organise and prepare the exhibit. A catalog of the exhibition was published.^[1] In total, the exhibition displayed almost 1100 works of art by painters, sculptors, graphic artists, artists of theater and cinema, and masters of arts and crafts. The event involved over 650 artists of Leningrad.

Contributing Artists

In the largest department, Painting, the works of 300 artists appeared. These included

For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1977-1978, as well as some earlier works. All were exhibited for the first time. Some of them were subsequently added to the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.

Portraits were presented: "Portrait of a Korean woman Tamara" by

Genre paintings included "Lenin in Switzerland" by Piotr Belousov, "After work", "Spring care" by Zlata Bizova, "Loneliness" by Lev Chegorovsky, "At the 5th Heat power plant" by Evgeny Chuprun, "A Spring" by Alexei Eriomin, "In Art Studio" by Vladimir Gorb, "Prophet" by Eugene Maltsev, "Plovdiv" by Boris Maluev, "Concerto for piano", "Concert with the ballerina" by Leonid Tkachenko, "Grandma's mirror" by Vitaly Tulenev, "Night grazing" by Boris Ugarov, and others.^[4]

Landscapes and Cityscapes featured "A Lake" by

Still life paintings were presented of "Flowers" by Irina Baldina, "Autumn Bouquet" by Evgenia Baykova, "Flowers and Sink" by Vladimir Gorb, "Sunflowers" by Irina Dobrekova, "Plums and Pears", "Lilies of the valley", "Plums and pears" by Maya Kopitseva, "Still life", "Still life with a book" by Gevork Kotiantz, "Jug and Fruits", "Bread with Black Jug" by Gavriil Malish, "Peonies and green sofa" by Valentina Rakhina, "Flowers of North", "A White night. A Lilac" by Boris Shamanov, "Still life with Red Tray" by Alexander Stolbov, "Golden fish" by Yuri Tulin, "Countryside Still life" by Anatoli Vasiliev, "A Lilac" by Ruben Zakharian, and others.^[6]

Acknowledgment

The Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978 was widely covered in the press^[7] and in literature on Soviet fine art.^[8][9][10]

See also

• Fine Art of Leningrad
• 1978 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• Leningrad School of Painting
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

References

Sources

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• Кекушева Г. Осенняя традиционная // Ленинградская правда, 1978, 28 ноября.
• Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980.
• Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.1-4. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
• Справочник членов Союза художников СССР. Т.1-2. М., Советский художник, 1979.
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• Юбилейный Справочник выпускников Санкт-Петербургского академического института живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры имени И. Е. Репина Российской Академии художеств. 1915—2005. Санкт Петербург, «Первоцвет», 2007.