Russia, The Land, The People: Russian Painting, 1850-1910

22 January–8 March 1987

The exhibition consisted of more than sixty canvases from the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century drawn from two major museums of the USSR – the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Leningrad. Embodied in these paintings are the Russian land, people, history, spiritual life, and cultural heritage. The artists presented in the exhibition include Ilya Repin, Vasilii Surikov, Ivan Kramskoi, Ivan Shishkin, Aleksei Savrasov, Isaak Levitan, Valentin Serov, and many others. The exhibition was presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, and the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. An interdisciplinary symposium accompanied the exhibition, featuring lecturers from around the country who spoke on a wide rand of aspects of Russian culture. 

The show is part of a cultural exchange agreement arising from the 1985 summit meeting between Ronald Regan and Mikhail Gorbachev. 

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