nikolai
dubovskoi
B. 1859, Novocherkassk, Russia
D. 1918, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Artist
Biography
Nikolai Dubovskoi
B. 1859, Novocherkassk, Russia
D. 1918, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Landscape figured largely in the art produced by the members of the nineteenth-century group of realistically-minded Russian artists known as the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions (or the Peredvizhniki, Wanderers, or Itinerants). Over half the works featured in the Societv's first exhibition held in 1871 were landscapes. A preoccupation with nature was in keeping with the movement's objective of developing a realistic, popular, and national school of art. From the outset, the Itinerants' landscapes were infused with a degree of realism and an interest in national motifs that separated them from landscape painting as practiced at the St.
Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. In contrast to the idealized Italianate landscapes of their academic counterparts, the Itinerants' landscapes were characterized by an embrace of the simple and commonplace, rendered in a realistic manner.
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Nikolai Dubovskoy belonged to the generation of artists who joined the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in the late 1880s, after it had become one of the dominant movements in art. He exhibited regularly with the Itinerants from 1886 to 1918. He was appointed a member of the Itinerants' Council, and in 1898 took over its leadership after the death of the former leader. Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898).
During his productive artistic career, Dubovskoy created four hundred paintings and over one thousand studies, including some of the most powerful images of vast open spaces to appear at the Itinerants' exhibitions (works that he referred to as "pantheistic"). Beginning in the 1890s, the artist began celebrating the grandeur and vast expanses of the countryside in epic depictions of the subject. Created in this vein, Summer Has Ended is one of Dubovskoy's mature works, after which he began to enjoy wide acclaim and popularity as a landscape painter. In 1900 he was awarded the silver medal for his landscapes at the International Exposition in Paris.
Available Artwork
View from the Coast
Signed and dated 1916. Oil on canvas
54 x 70.5 cm (21.3 x 27.7 in)
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