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Cable Factory (Sevkabel Factory)

Cable Factory (Sevkabel Factory)

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ionin

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. Ionin, attracted by the philosophy of the first Five Year Plan, painted on location such works as The Cable Factory. He used constructive arrangement of planes to express the notion of mechanical function and harmony.
Artist
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ionin
(Russian, 1890 - 1948)
Title
Cable Factory (Sevkabel Factory)
Date
1935
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
53 1/4 x 79 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Joseph E. Davies
Accession No.
37.2.44
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. 46
  • Sioux City Art Center. "Davies Collection: Russian Painting 1850-1936." Sioux City, IA: Sioux City Art Center, 1967. pp. 6, cat. no. 20
  • Tuan, Yi-fu. "The Last Launch : Messages in the Bottle." Staunton, VA : George F. Thompson Publishing, L.L.C., 2015. p. 32

  • Selections from the Joseph E. Davies Collection of Russian and Soviet Paintings: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/1/1981–9/27/1981
  • Davies Collection: Russian Painting 1850-1936: Sioux City Art Center, 9/10/1967–10/9/1967

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