Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters: Nicolai Fechin January 20, 2013

This 20th century Russian-American artist is renowned as much for his impressionistic scenes of the American southwest as for his Russian roots. The exhibit features paintings on loan from Russian and American museums and private collections. The fourth in the series 'Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters,' this exhibition illustrates the artist's impeccable skill as a draftsman, his finely tuned sense of color, and bravura brushwork. A student of the celebrated Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) is one of the most prominent 20th century artists in the Russian tradition.