Sergei Lednev-Schukin

Sergei Evgrafovich Lednev-Schukin

Born 14 (26) August, 1875 - Zaozerie, Yaroslavl Province, Russian Empire,

Died 7 april 1961 - Moscow, USSR.

Biography

Serge Lednev-Schukin was a Russian landscape and impressionist painter who lived and worked most of his life in Moscow. He graduated from the Central Stroganov School of Technical Drawing in Moscow. He was a member of the Association World of Art (Mir Iskusstva), Group of artists Nezavisimye 1907-1912, Saint Petersburg Society of Artists, Member of Moscow Association Sreda. After the Russian revolution he participated in the 2nd National Exhibition of paintings in Moscow (1918-1919), he also participated in the exhibition of Combined Arts in 1925, in exhibitions of Artists Society Assembly 1924-1929 and Iskysstvo Trudyaschimsya 1925-1928^[1] ^[2]^[2] ^[3]^[4]. His paintings were exhibited in the State Tretyakov Gallery (1989), Khimki Art Gallery (1990), Primoe Picture Gallery Vladivostok, Novokuznetsk Art Museum, Kherson Museum of Art in Ukraine and several other Russian museums^[2] and overseas collections including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ^[5].

Sources:

Russian church in snow, gouache and watercolor 40.6 x58.4 cm (from the collections of NY Metropolitan Museum)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335015

Chapel by the road Zvenigorod, oil/panel 38.6 x 51 cm (Private Collection)

http://www.antikpraha.cz/index.php?idAktualni=8&idInzerat=41367

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Леднев-Щукин,_Сергей_Евграфович

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^ Robert A. Karlowich — A Guide to Scholarly Resources on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the New York Metropolitan Area; M.E. Sharpe, 1990, p. 84; ISBN 0-87-332619-9.
^ ↑ Лапшин В. П. — Художественная жизнь Москвы и Петрограда в 1917 году. М.: Сов. худ., 1983, c. 473.
^ "New York Metropolitan Museum of Art".