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In the Russian Tradition: A Historic Collection of 20th-Century Russian Paintings

December 15, 2004 - April 10, 2005

Museum: Ripley Center

Location: International Gallery

This retrospective exhibition features approximately 50 paintings by 45 Russian artists to explore the diversity of Russian art over the last 100 years. Portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings chronicle Russian life in peace and turmoil and define the various periods in Russian Realist art. This is the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian paintings in America since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Organized jointly by curators from the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis.

Catalogue: (cloth; available at Castle and Hirshhorn Museum Stores)

For more information, see The Museum of Russian Art's web site at www.tmora.org