5500 Stevens Ave
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419

'The Road North' brings together over fifty works by leading postwar Soviet painters whose portrayal of traditional life in the small villages and ancient towns of the Russian North stood in stark contrast to the focus on industrialization characteristic of socialist realism. This thematically consistent sample of post-Stalinist art demonstrates Soviet painters' openness to exploring broader artistic perspectives in the decades following the dictator's death in 1953.

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