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. Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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.
Rain in an Oak Forest, Ivan Shishkin (from here).