Exhibition of Leningrad artists (1951)

Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Leningrad, 1951. Catalog
Year	1951
Location	State Russian Museum, Leningrad

Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1951 (Russian: Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1951 года) became one of the notable event in Art live of Leningrad of the beginning of 1950s. The Exhibition took place in the State Russian Museum.

History and organization

Exhibition was opened on November, 22, and worked up to December, 4, 1951. Organization and preparation of the annual Exhibition of Leningrad artists engaged specially formed Exhibition Committee which consisted of 26 the authoritative art-experts. It was published a Catalog of the exhibition.^[1] Exhibition displayed works of art of leading Leningraf's painters, sculptors, and graphics artists.

Contributing artists

In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited art works of 126 authors. There were

For the Exhibition were selected art works created in years of 1950-1951, also some earlier works. All they were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of leading Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors. In exposition were presented all genres of contemporary painting: portrait, historical and genre painting, landscape and cityscape, still life.

Genre painting was presented of "Chess Players" by

Historical painting was presented of "Stalin and Voroshilov in the defense of Tsaritsyn" by Nikolai Babasuk, "We'll go the other way" by Piotr Belousov, "Storming of the Winter Palace" by Rudolf Frentz, "October, 20" by Ivan Godlevsky, "Rest after the Battle. Vasily Terkin" by Yuri Neprintsev, "On the tsar's penal servitude" by Yaroslav Nikolaev, "In Gorki" by Vladimir Seleznev, and some others.^[4]

Portrait was presented of "Academician Mikhail Kostenko" by Mikhail Anikushin, "Portrait of Strogov" by Vladislav Anisovich, "Pigeon" by Olga Bogaevskaya, "A Collective farm's shepherd" by Piotr Buchkin, "Portrait of Ekaterina Podovinnikova" by Vladimir Gorb, "Schoolgirl" and "Portrait of A. Karnovskaya" by Tatiana Kopnina, "Portrait of F. Lysko" by Anatoli Levitin, "Portrait of artist Piotr Buchkin" and "Portrait of artist Yuri Neprintsev" by Alexander Lubimov, "Alexander Matrosov" by Gleb Savinov, "Man's Portrait" by Igor Veselkin, and some others.^[5]

Landscape and Cityscape were presented of "The Beginning of Spring" by

Still life paintings were presented of "Flowers" and "Still life" by Gleb Savinov, "Still life" by Anna Kostina, and some others.^[8]

Acknowledgment

Exhibition was widely covered in press and in literature on Soviet fine art.^[9][10][11]

See also

• Fine Art of Leningrad
• Leningrad School of Painting
• 1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Socialist realism

References

Sources

• Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1951 года. Каталог. Л., Лениздат, 1951.
• Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Т.4. 1948—1953 годы. М., Советский художник, 1976. C.353-354.
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• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.389, 413.
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• List of Artists - Exhibitors (Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1951)