Welcome to The McCarthey GalleryThe Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery is one of the foremost dealers in the United States dealing with Russian Impressionistic art. The Gallery maintains an extensive inventory of collectible works by Russia's most respected artists during the period of 1930 to 1980. The Gallery carefully selects paintings that are historically significant, original in composition, interesting in form and beautiful in their depiction of the human spirit. We have been working in Russia for many years and have developed close personal relationships with many of the artists and their families. Together with our associated gallery in Russia, Dacha Art, and our Russian partners, we maintain extremely close ties with the arts community in Russia and the former Soviet republics. In addition to our Russian specialization, the TKM Gallery is proud to work with talented artists from other countries who have the spirit of the Russian art. Read more about the McCarthey Gallery.... |
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Our February Silent Auction PaintingAs our silent auction selection for February, we are pleased to present a wonderful work, "Woman's Portrait by noted Byelorussian artist Piotr Serapionovich Krokholev. P. Krokholev, who survived the Great Patriotic war and graduated from the renowned Repin Institute, is a true master. In Krokholev's work you can see that he was greatly influenced by the traditions of Russian art and by it's famed painters such as V. Surkilov, Valendtin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Ilja Repin, Isaak Levitan, Ivan Shishkin and others. He primarily painted portraits and landscapes which vividly depicted his native land in all its beauty, history and present-day life. In 1970 Krokholev was bestowed the title of "Honored Artist of Belarus and was a constant participant in All-Union, Republic and Regional exhibitions. He participated in several international exhibitions as well (China, Romania, England, Poland and Japan). His works are in the collections of the Byelorussian State Museum Mink, regional Russian Museums and the Springville Museum, USA.
Piotr S. Krokholev, "Woman's Portrait"
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Featured Paintings!
Nechitailo, Vasily Kirillovich Vasili Kirillovich Nechitailo was born in Nikolaevskoe, the province of Rostov-on-Don, in 1915. In 1931 he began his study of art at the Krasnodar Art Tekhnikum where he remained until 1935. In 1935 the artist entered into preparatory art courses at the Surikov Institute. After approximately two years of preparation, Nechitailo enrolled in the Moscow Art Institute as a full time student under the tutelage of the revered professor Alexander Gerasimov. He attended the Institute from 1937 to 1942. The artist then enrolled in their graduate program in 1942. In 1943, while still attending the Surikov, Nechitailo and 11 other academically accomplished artists were evacuated to Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the duration of the war. It looked like Moscow might fall to the Germans so the Soviet government decided to evacuate their most promising artists who they saw as cultural assets. He returned and completed his graduate degree in 1944. He was honored with the opportunity to teach at the Surikov Institute from 1948 until 1956. Vasili Nechitailo began to actively exhibit in 1945. Nechitailo died in Moscow in 1980.
Awards: (partial list) Named "People's Artist of Russia", 1965 Exhibitions: (partial list) Collections: (partial list) Books: (partial list) Additional Information: "He understood the beauty of the process of painting, and the techniques he developed, in many ways, defined the classical standards that continued the cultural traditions of Soviet and Russian Realist art. His landscapes are distinguished for their composition and color harmony as well as for their exquisite and laconic style. His portraits of laborers, all healthy and strong, reflect his optimistic view of the typical Soviet village and collective farm after the war. As one critic has noted, his extraordinary paintings of people form a collective portrait of his time." -The Museum of Russian Art, Minnesota
Stasevich, Ivan Nikiforovich
Stasevich, Ivan Nikiforovich (1929- 1998)Honored Artist of Belarus 1985 Ivan N. Stasevich, painter and honored artist of Byelorussia, was born on January 9, 1929 in the village of Medvednya, in Starodorozhensky district of Minsk region into a peasant family. During the war years, he became a fighter in the third brigade. He survived the blockade with the partisans. When Belarus was liberated, at the age of 15, he made enrolled in the motor-road unit of the 1st Belarusian Front. And during all the war years he drew war sheets, posters, road signs, the last of which is "To the Reichstag - 250 meters." After the end of the war, in he enrolled in the Minsk Art College, graduating in 1952. He then left for Moscow and began his studies at the famed Suirikov Institute, graduating in 1958. His professors were noted artists G. M. Izergina, A. P. Mozalev, V. K. Tsvirko, and D. K. Mochalsky. His diploma work "In the Belarusian Swamps", which depicts the exit of partisans from the blockade, was exhibited at the All-Union art exhibition and was positively noted by critics. The subjects of fighting against Nazi remained very important for the artist in the subsequent years. There were such pictures as Life Everlasting, Oath (1965-1967), May (1945), and Happy Meeting (1969-1970). The subjects of the artist's pictures also reflected the optimistic attitudes of the post-war years, the years of construction work. In the 1960s, the artist worked at the construction site of Bratsk Hydropower Station where he painted portraits of wood-cutters, industrial landscapes and genre compositions, such as Angara, Angara (1960) and Winners of Padun Rapids (1961). When he returned to Belarusia, the artist's creative work became closely connected with teaching. For many years, Stasevich worked in Minsk Institute of Theater and Art. An Associate Professor, and then a Professor of the Institute, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Belarus 1985. He was always attracted by people close to him, powerful characters, ebullient life energy. In landscape painting he embodied the views of the south and north of Belarus. Throughout his life, he visited almost the entire Soviet Union, he was also in Italy, France and Portugal. I.N. Stasevich was an active participant of all Russia's and all Belarusian exhibitions. Before the independence of Belarus from Russia, he was a member of the USSR Union of Artists. I. N. Stasevich's works are included in many public and private collections (Belarus, Russia, Algeria, England, Austria, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, Canada and others); including the National art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian Union of artists, the Museum of modern fine arts in Minsk, Vitebsk Museum of M. Shmarova, the Belarusian Museum of the great Patriotic war, Svetlogorsk and Gomel Museums, the Museum P. Masherov, Vitebsk, and the Ministry of culture of Russia. including in the homeland of the artist in the Starodorozhsky District Historical and Ethnographic Museum there are over 70 of his works. 22 works of painting and graphics by the master are included in the collection of the National Art Museum I. N. Stasevich passed away on on September 11, 1998 at the age off 66.
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Russian & Soviet Impressionism
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New Salt Lake City Gallery & WharehouseGood News! We are now fully settled into our new Gallery and Warehouse in downtown Salt Lake City and are ready to show you some great Russian Impressionist art. The majority of the works in the new Gallery have never been exhibited before!
Mailing Address: 54 B Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103 Hours: By appointment or 6- 9 pm for Gallery Stroll (the third Friday of every month) |
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