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The Colliery Terminus

The Colliery Terminus

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Finageev

The Chazens 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. Finageev's The Colliery Terminus (37.2.46) captures in the muted palette the grim aspects of the labor.
Artist
Finageev
(Russian, late 19th c - early 20th century)
Title
The Colliery Terminus
Date
ca. 1930
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 x 35 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Joseph E. Davies
Accession No.
37.2.46
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. p. 29, no. 48
  • Sioux City Art Center. "Davies Collection: Russian Painting 1850-1936." Sioux City, IA: Sioux City Art Center, 1967.

  • Davies Collection: Russian Painting 1850-1936: Sioux City Art Center, 9/10/1967–10/9/1967

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