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Red Army in the Don Basin

Red Army in the Don Basin

Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalya

The Chazen‘s Soviet socialist realist paintings were collected by then ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies in the mid-1930s and donated to the University of Wisconsin in 1937. Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalya was a key representative of Soviet socialist realism, a member of AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia) who painted photographic records of historical events, such as life of the Red Army, the workers, the peasants, the revolutionaries, the heroes of labor, well exemplified in the painting of The Red Army in the Don Basin.
Artist
Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalya
(Russian, 1899 – 1961)
Title
Red Army in the Don Basin
Date
ca. 1930
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46 x 59 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Joseph E. Davies
Accession No.
37.2.47
Classification
Paintings
Geography
Russia

Related

1937, purchased in U.S.S.R. [now Russia] by Joseph E. Davies [ambassador to U.S.S.R.] (Washington, DC); 1937, gifted to University of Wisconsin – Madison; 1967, transferred to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Bowlt, John E. "Soviet Paintings in the Joseph E. Davies Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, 1976-1977. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1977): 34-42.
  • Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin of the City of New York. "The Joseph E. Davies Collection of Russian Paintings and Icons Presented to The University of Wisconsin." New York: Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin of the City of New York, 1938. pp. 29-31, no. 49; pl. 49
  • Baker, D. Frederick, "A University Collects: The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin," in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine (Autumn/Winter 2013) vol. XII, issue 6 :184-193. p. 2, no. 186

  • Title unknown [Russian paintings]: University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 10/3/1974–10/29/1974

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