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Eye Candy for today: Ivan Shishkin graphite drawing
Trees by the Stream, Ivan Shishkin Link is to the image page on The Athenaeum, direct link to the large image here. Original is in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. The drawing is in graphite. I don’t have the dimensions. Like many of the great landscape painters, 19th century Russian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ivan Shishkin’s Rye
Rye, Ivan Shishkin Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. In contrast to his scenes of thick forest groves, Russian landscape master Ivan Shishkin here stands his trees as sentinels above the expanse of a rye field. A dirt…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Mast Grove
The Mast-tree Grove, Ivan Shishkin One of my favorites by the great Russian landscape painter. “Mast-tree Grove”, means a stand of trees suitable for making the masts of large sailing ships. I have to stand back in awe at the way he has handled a subject that could be reduced to sameness in the hands…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s pine forest
Morning in a Pine Forest, Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Shishkin supposedly had help from Savitsky in painting the bears, and perhaps some of the layout, but Savitsky’s name was later removed from the attribution. Link is to Wikimedia Commons; click through for a high-resolution version. Original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Oak Grove
Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin. On Wikipaintings. Large version here. Original is in the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art. See my previous Eye Candy post of a Shishkin forest scene (presumably in the same oak forest) and my post on Ivan Shishkin.
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin forest scene
Rain in an Oak Forest, Ivan Shishkin (from here).