Spring is on the way (painting)

Spring is on the way
Artist Vladimir I. Ovchinnikov
Year 1972
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 cm × 70 cm (24 in × 28 in)
Location private collection

History

Spring is on the way is a painting by Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Овчинников)(1911-1978), well-known Russian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation,[1] regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting,[2] most famous for his landscape paintings.

In painting the author captures the view of the high bank of the Volkhov River in the Staraya Ladoga with the Church of St John the Baptist, with the Chapel of St Paraskeva and bell tower.

For the first time the painting was exhibited in 1988 on Vladimir Ovchinnikov posthumous exhibition in the Leningrad Union of Artists.[3] In 1994, picture again was shown in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists at the exhibition of «The Paintings of 1950-1980s by Artists of the Leningrad School».[4] In 2007 the painting «Spring is on the way» was reproduced and described among 350 art works by Leningrad artists in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School»,[5] published in Russian and English.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2. Moscow, Soviet artist, 1979. P.145.
  2. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 19-22, 24, 366, 389-396, 398-400, 402-406.
  3. ↑ В. Овчинников. Весна идёт. 1972 // Владимир Иванович Овчинников. Выставка произведений. Каталог. Вступительная статья Н. В. Васильевой. Составитель каталога В. В. Овчинников. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1984. С.33.
  4. ↑ Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Artists of the Leningrad School. Exhibition catalogue. Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Union of artists, 1994.
  5. ↑ В. Овчинников. Весна идёт. 1972. // Иванов С. В. Неизвестный соцреализм. Ленинградская школа. СПб., НП-Принт. 2007. С.219.

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