Born 1885, Mozhaisk - Died 1964, Moscow
Painter
Paintings Biography 
Some additional work by this artist may be found at the Mass and Agit Art category.
Paintings
In an Old House. 1906.
Watercolor and plumbago on paper, 42.5x32.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
At the Cart. 1906.
Watercolor and whitening on paper, 48.5x32.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Market-place at Mozhaisk. 1908.
Watercolor and plumbago on paper, 44x32 cm.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
A Market Day at Mozhaisk. 1908.
Watercolor, whitening and pencil on paper, 44.1x32.6 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Fair. 1908.
Watercolor, whitening and pencil on cardboard, 24.5x33.7 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Moonlit Night. 1909.
Watercolor on paper, 48.7x31.2 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Wedding in a Tavern. 1909.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 29.4x48.1 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Passenger Cart. The First Snow. 1911.
Watercolor and whitening on paper, 47.7x62.1 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Still Life. 1911.
Watercolor, gouache and varnish on cardboard, 61.3x53.2 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Portrait of a Man (Ivan Dmitriyevich Sytin). 1912.
Watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard, 70x82 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Watering the Horses. 1912.
Watercolor and whitening on paper, 49.8x60.5 cm.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Portrait of Alexandra Gavrilovna Gerasimova, the Artist's Wife. 1913.
Oil on canvas, 73x59 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
In the North. 1913.
Watercolor, whitening and plumbago on paper, 30x44 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Self-portrait. 1918.
Oil on canvas, 82x71 cm.
Museum of Russian Art, Kiev.
Portrait of a Boy. 1918-1919.
Oil on canvas, 106x71 cm.
Astrakhan Picture Gallery.
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This Bread We Partake. 1921.
Oil on canvas, 83.5x83 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
A Peasant. 1921.
Lithography, 21.1x17.8 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Famine. 1921.
Oil on canvas.
Original lost.
At the Table. 1921.
Oil on canvas.
A Townswoman. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 90x68 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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Self-portrait in a White Shirt. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 86x76 cm.
Exhibition Committee, Union of Artists, Moscow.
A Peasant in a Cap. 1925.
Oil on canvas, 81x61 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Veteran of the Civil War. 1926.
Oil on plywood, 67x51 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
One of Pugachev's Men. 1927.
Oil on canvas, 89x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Fishermen. 1928.
Sanguine on paper, 33.2x47.1 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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A Dam. 1929.
Oil on canvas, 82x105.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Fishermen on the Volkhov River. 1928-1930.
Oil on canvas, 164.5x284.8 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Winter. 1920s.
Oil on canvas, 65.5x97 cm.
Radischev Museum, Saratov.
Raftsmen. 1920s.
Oil on canvas, 93.5x118 cm.
Bishkek Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan.
Colts in Levada (Stud Farm). 1930.
Oil on canvas, 75x96 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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The White Sea. 1931.
Oil on canvas, 61.5x89 cm.
Tashkent State Art Museum.
An Evening in the Port. 1932.
A Bunch of Flowers. 1933.
Watercolor on grey paper, 62x48.2 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Northern Landscape. Evening. 1933.
Oil on canvas, 71x89 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Kolkhoz Watchman. 1933.
Oil on canvas, 119.2x80 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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In the Caucasus. 1934.
Oil on canvas, 95x125 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Seven Peasants. Head-peace for the Prologue for the poem "Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?" by N.Nekrasov. 1933-35.
Black watercolor on paper, 34.2x61.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Matriona's Tale. Illustration for the poem "Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?" by N.Nekrasov, part III: "The Peasant Woman. Prologue". 1933-35.
Black watercolor on paper, 43.4x31.4 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Congregation. Illustration for the poem "Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?" by N.Nekrasov. 1933-35.
Black watercolor on paper, 37x30.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Guard Before the Peasants. Illustration for poem "Who Lives Well in Russia" by N.A.Nekrasov. 1933-35.
Watercolor on paper, 43.7x61.7 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Spring Flood. 1934-35.
Oil on canvas, 71.5x93.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Rain Cloud. 1936.
Oil on canvas, 72.3x89.3 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Caucasus. 1937.
Watercolor on paper, 43.6x54.6 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Cloudy Day. 1937.
Oil on canvas, 93x93 cm.
Bishkek Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan.
Bouquet of Goldcups. Still Life. 1938.
Oil on canvas, 100x71 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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Kislovodsk. 1938.
Oil on canvas, 65x111.5 cm.
Bishkek Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan.
Kislovodsk. 1938.
Oil on canvas, 107x80 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
At a South Resort.
Oil on canvas, 86x115 cm.
Riazan Art Museum.
Pskov. The Velikaya River. 1938.
Oil on canvas, 70x90 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Winter. 1939.
Oil on canvas, 69.9x90.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Bouquet. 1939.
Oil on canvas, 89x72 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Town at Night-time. 1940.
Oil on canvas, 62.3x89.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Bluebells. 1940.
Oil on canvas, 90.5x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Landscape with a Tower. Early Spring. 1940.
Oil on canvas, 63x90 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
In the Days of Lermontov. 1940.
Watercolor on paper, 43.6x54.6 cm.
The Artist's family collection, Moscow.
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A Windy Evening in Samarkand. 1941.
Oil on canvas, 69x88 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Street in Samarkand. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 91x70 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Spring in Samarkand. Blossoming Trees. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 69x89 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Street in Samarkand. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 70x89 cm.
Bishkek Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan.
Madrash Shir-Dar. 1942.
Oil on canvas, 35x33 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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Novgorod. View of the Kremlin from the River Volkhov. 1944.
Oil on canvas, 86x215 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Novgorod. The Ruins of the Church of Transfiguration. 1944.
Oil on canvas, 72x119.5 cm.
Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow.
Novgorod. Cathedral of St.Sophia in the Kremlin. 1944.
Oil on canvas, 100x130 cm.
Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow.
Mozhaisk. Cathedral of St.Nicholas. 1944.
Oil on canvas, 79x120 cm.
Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow.
The End of the Ice Drift. 1945.
Oil on canvas, 76x107 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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In Vologda. 1945.
Watercolor on paper, 43.6x54.6 cm.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
The Town of Driomov. Frontpiece for novel "The Artamonov Business" by Maxim Gorky. 1946.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 55.4x41 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Bank of the Volga River. Drawing for the half-title for play "The Storm" by A.Ostrovsky, Act I. 1948.
Black watercolor on paper, 18.3x27.9 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Cows in a Meadow. Mid 1940s .
Oil on canvas, 70x88 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Piotr and Natalya. Illustration for novel "The Artamonov Business" by Maxim Gorky. 1950.
Watercolor on paper, 49.5x35 cm.
The State Museum of Literature, Moscow.
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Piotr and Natalya. Illustration for novel "The Artamonov Business" by Maxim Gorky. 1950.
Watercolor on paper, 54.3x59.5 cm.
Museum of Russian Art, Kiev.
Mozhaisk. Fields. 1950.
Oil on canvas, 24x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Katerina. Sketch for the frontpiece for play "The Storm" by A.Ostrovsky. 1951.
Watercolor on paper, 41x29 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Early Spring. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 33.8x49.8 cm.
Museum of Russian Art, Kiev.
Mikhailovskoye. View from the House of A.S.Pushkin. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 23.8x69 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Kutuzov at the Battle of Borodino. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 180x253 cm.
Borodino Panorama Museum, Moscow.
Pugachev in the Berda Village. Illustration for "The Captain's Daughter" by A.S.Pushkin. 1952.
Watercolor on paper, 74x60 cm.
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
March. 1952.
Oil on canvas, 82x105 cm.
Tashkent State Art Museum.
Winter Evening. 1953.
Oil on canvas, 27.5x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
July. 1953.
Oil on cardboard, 23.8x69.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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The Church of Intercession on the Nerl. 1953.
Oil on canvas, 82x105 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
At the Ferry Crossing. 1954.
Oil on cardboard, 24.5x69.3 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The First Green of Spring. 1954.
Oil on cardboard, 49x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Artamonov's Family. Illustration sketch for novel "The Artamonov Business" by Maxim Gorky. 1954.
Oil on cardboard, 39.5x49.2 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Last of the Snow. 1954.
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Bouquet. 1955.
Oil on canvas, 90x70 cm.
Tashkent State Art Museum.
Mozhaisk. Memoirs of the Artist's Father. 1955.
Oil on cardboard, 25x70.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Lilac in Bloom. 1955.
Oil on canvas, 49x69.8 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Venice. The Last Rays of the Setting Sun. From the series "Tour of Europe". 1956.
Oil on cardboard, 70x50 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Street in Venice. From the series "Tour of Europe". 1956.
Oil on cardboard, 70x50 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Venice. Morning at the Canale Grande. From the series "Tour of Europe". 1956.
Oil on cardboard, 35.2x101.5 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Paris. In the Vicinity of the Louvre. From the series "Tour of Europe". 1956.
Oil on cardboard, 49x69 cm.
Radischev Museum, Saratov.
Mozhaisk. Evening. From the series "Russian Land", awarded the Lenin Prize for 1966. 1959.
Oil on cardboard, 40x70 cm.
Exhibition Committee, Union of Artists, Moscow.
Lansdcape with a River. From the series "Russian Land", awarded the Lenin Prize for 1966. 1959.
Oil on cardboard, 50x106 cm.
Exhibition Committee, Union of Artists, Moscow.
Oxford, England. From the series "Tour of Europe". 1959.
Oil on cardboard, 49x70 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Mozhaisk. Sunset. From the series "Russian Land", awarded the Lenin Prize for 1966. 1959-60.
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard, 24x71 cm.
Exhibition Committee, Union of Artists, Moscow.
The Parthenon. From the series "Tour of Greece". 1961.
Oil on cardboard, 49x81 cm.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Snow has Gone. From the series "Russian Land", awarded the Lenin Prize for 1966. 1963.
Oil on cardboard, 49.5x69 cm.
Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow.
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Biography:
Sergey Gerasimov was born September 26th 1885 in an ancient town of Mozhaisk, near Moscow, situated on the Moscow river, in a family of a peasant tanner, Vassily Gerasimov.
The boy loved drawing from an early age. Upon finishing school, in 1900, Sergey went to Moscow, looking for a job and not even daring to dream of a career in art. There he has heard that the Stroganov school of Art and Design was accepting students, and decided to try enrolling, with no training, on luck alone. He passed the entrance examinations with flying colors and was accepted to the department of decorative painting to study under K.Korovin and S.Ivanov.
Gerasimov. Late 1910s.
Despite the school's dominant trend of leaning towards industrial and applied art, Gerasimov was attracted to easel painting. He graduated in 1907 as decorator, and enrolled into the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied till 1912.
Gerasimov's early exposure to Russian countryside landscapes and small-town life has more or less decided his choice of main subject for his later painting carreer. There were markets, fairs, landscapes, genre paintings, portraits of peasants and townspeople. In his early work he worked a lot in watercolor; striving to solve the issues of air and light he added gouache or whitening, achieving more solidity and volume.
In 1912 the artist was offered a job of teaching drawing at the art school of the firm of Sytin and Company, Printers and Lithographers, which has began his long and successulf teaching carreer.
Gerasimov was drafted in the army service in WWI, and served in the front, which influenced his views a great deal.
The Great October Revolution was an event which the artist supported. He has taken an active role in the activities of the Moscow Department of Fine Arts at the Peoples' Commissariat of Education. He has, along with his fellow artists, reorganized Sytin's art school, which he headed from 1918 to 1923. In 1920-29 he served as Dean as well as professor at the Department of Painting of VKhUTEMAS.
Gerasimov participated in decorating Moscow for the First Anniversary of the October Revolution of the Serpukhov and Kaluga Squares, and of the building of the former city Duma (later the central Lenin Museum).
In 1921 Gerasimov has joined the World of Art movement, but left after participating in a single exhibition. In 1922 he joined the newly formed Makovetz movement, and his years as a member of the group (till 1925) has confirmed his belief in realism in art. Then, in 1928 Gerasimov has joined OMKh
In 1925 he has visited Mediterranian Europe (Greece, Italy and Turkey).
In 1937 he participated in the International Fair "Arts et techniques dans la vie moderne" in Paris, where his painting "Kolkhoz Holiday " was awarded silver medal. In 1939 this same painting was awarded two prizes at the All-Union art exhibition "The Industry of Socialism" in Moscow. For his "Russian Land" series he was awarded the Lenin prize (posthumously).
Gerasimov. Late years.
Many of Gerasimov's landscapes were painted in the vicinity of his native town. However, he traveled widely through the USSR, and during the WWII in Russia (1941-1945) was evacuated to Central Asia, where he painted Samarkand and other Asian landscapes.
His 1941 patriotic canvas "Mother of a Partisan" has won a gold medal at the World Fair in Brussels in 1958. And his painting "For the Power of the Soviets!" and the series "Mozhaisk Landscapes" were awarde the gold medal of the USSR Academy of Arts at the all-Union art exhibition in 1959. For his "
Despite the school's dominant trend of leaning towards industrial and applied art, Gerasimov was
Alongside his landscape and genre painting? Gerassimov has undertaken several large illustration projects. In 1939 Gerassimov has began illustration of the novel "The Artamonov Business" by Maxim Gorky, a task which has taken 15 years. Soon after the war he has taken on the play "Storm" by A.Ostrovsky, then "The Captain's Daughter" by A.S.Pushkin. But whatever the task - Gerassimov has approached it always with a great deal of knowledge of the subject at hand and deep thorough understanding.
Gerasimov served as charmain for the Union of Artists of Moscow, and then First Secretary of the all-USSR Union of Artists.
Sergey Gerasimov has died Aprin 20th 1964, in Moscow.