Friday, November 30, 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012

Answering the KomSoMol's Call

Isaak Iosifovich Tartakovski: Answering the KomSoMol's Call 
(Reconstruction in the Donbass) (1952)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Vacation Break

I'll be on vacation until next Monday, when posting will resume.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Richard

Konstantin Mefodevich Maksimov

 A Warrior of the Chinese Revolution (1955)
 
 Russian Still-life in Winter (1978)

Sashka the Tractor Driver in Virgin Lands (study) (1954)

Monday, November 19, 2012

Valentina Savelieva

 Celebration (1970)

 Enisey River (1965)

 Family (1974)

 Morning (1974)

 Uzbek Singer (1961)

Women from Mar'in Posad (1965)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Thursday, November 15, 2012

April in Muftuga

Vladimir Fedorovich Stozharov: April in the Village of Muftuga (1967)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Still Life with Medals

Anatoli Yurevich Nikich-krilichevski: Still-life with the Medals of M. Isaakova (1951)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Milkmaids

Pavel Fedorovich Shardakov: Milkmaids, City of Volgograd (1967)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Engels Kozlov

Engels Kozlov (1926-2007) was a Soviet painter granted the title of "People's Artist of Russia."

 Baking Bread (1967)

 Coal Mine at Inta (1963)

 Golden Autumn: Lady with Red Hat (1962)

Portrait of Aleksei Vladimirovich Kosov, Coal Miner at Mine No. 5, City of Inta (1963)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Aleksandr Georgievich Gulyaev

 Nomad's Tent, Virgin Lands (1955)

 Raisa Mittailovna Nevor, Golden Grainfield in the Virgin Lands (1955)
[this heroine of Soviet labor seems a mite...grumpy]

 The Nursing Mother (1970)

 Waiting for the Mail in the Virgin Lands (1957)

Winter in the Village (1966)

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Nikolai Terpsikhorov

My Wife Nadya (1944)

 Ladies Walking Along a Country Road

 River Kama, A Tributary of the Volga (1950)

The Snows Have Started To Thaw: Early Spring (1946)

Turkmenian Weavers (1935)

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012

Pyotr Konchalovsky

Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876-1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter.

 Apples and a Dog (1939)

 Landscape. Ravine (1926)

 Pear Tree in Blossom (1927)

Pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky (1932)