Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy was the leader of the 19th Century group of Russian realist artists known as the Peredvizhniki, (in English the “Itinerants” or the “Wanderers”), who mounted joint traveling exhibitions in protest of the restrictive policies of the official Russian Academy (somewhat parallel to Read More …

Another in my series of posts of artists’ self-portraits. The series started when I got tired of hearing about “selfies”, and came out with an attitude of “You want selfies? I show you some selfies!”, but gradually relaxed into an ongoing series based on variety. Read More …

Andrei Nikolaievich Schilder, a Russian landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a student of landscape master Ivan Shishkin — and it shows. Like his teacher, Schilder’s dense forests and pastoral fields are rich with texture, and conveyed with a Read More …

Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (sometimes “Clodt”) was a 19th century Russian landscape painter and a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”), the group of Russian painters that broke away from the Academy to carry out their own traveling exhibitions. His work is not as Read More …