Nicolai Cikovsky | |
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Born | Николай Степанович Циковский December 10, 1894
Pinsk, Russian Empire (modern Belarus) |
Died | May 6, 1985 New York | (aged 90)
Nicolai Stepanovich Cikovsky (December 10, 1894 – May 6, 1985) was an American painter. His work is held at the Whitney, MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [1] He also had three New Deal-era Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissions for public buildings: two murals at Maryland post offices and a set of the murals at the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. [2]
Born "near the Polish border," Cikovsky emigrated from Pinsk to the United States in 1923. [3] He published a number of pieces in proletarian (Communist) journals like New Masses and International Literature in the 1930s. He was a member of the John Reed Club and showed landscapes at the Whitney. [4] Cikovsky was a resident at Yaddo in 1931. [5] Cikovsky was one of the Soviet émigré painters who formed the Hampton Bays Art Group. [6] [7] Other members of the group were David Burliuk, Arshile Gorky, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, John D. Graham, George Constant, and Milton Avery. [6] Originally producing slightly abstracted images, by the late 1940s Cikovsky had moved toward naturalism. [8] Cikovsky died in Washington, D.C. at age 90. [9]
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. (1933–2016) was a noted art historian and curator at the National Gallery of Art. [10]
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Nicolai Cikovsky | |
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![]() Desert,
Department of Interior Building, Washington, D.C. | |
Born | Николай Степанович Циковский December 10, 1894
Pinsk, Russian Empire (modern Belarus) |
Died | May 6, 1985 New York | (aged 90)
Nicolai Stepanovich Cikovsky (December 10, 1894 – May 6, 1985) was an American painter. His work is held at the Whitney, MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [1] He also had three New Deal-era Treasury Section of Fine Arts commissions for public buildings: two murals at Maryland post offices and a set of the murals at the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. [2]
Born "near the Polish border," Cikovsky emigrated from Pinsk to the United States in 1923. [3] He published a number of pieces in proletarian (Communist) journals like New Masses and International Literature in the 1930s. He was a member of the John Reed Club and showed landscapes at the Whitney. [4] Cikovsky was a resident at Yaddo in 1931. [5] Cikovsky was one of the Soviet émigré painters who formed the Hampton Bays Art Group. [6] [7] Other members of the group were David Burliuk, Arshile Gorky, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, John D. Graham, George Constant, and Milton Avery. [6] Originally producing slightly abstracted images, by the late 1940s Cikovsky had moved toward naturalism. [8] Cikovsky died in Washington, D.C. at age 90. [9]
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. (1933–2016) was a noted art historian and curator at the National Gallery of Art. [10]
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