Nicolai Cikovsky Art

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1950 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1950 Spr...

Signed Nicolai Cikovsky oil on Canvas Painting of Woman. Nicolai S. Cikovsky was born in Russia in 1894. He studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art Institute, 1921-1923. He came of age during a period of momentous cultural, political, and social upheaval. In the aftermath of the civil war, he left Russia and emigrated to the United States in 1923, exhibiting in that year in New York City at the Charles Daniels Gallery and, in the early 1930s, the Downtown Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1942, Best known for his plein air landscapes of bucolic Hampton Bays, NY and figurative works, Cikovsky was lauded for his ability to infuse his art with feeling, capturing the spirit of a place or person. In Long Island he was one of the Hampton Bay Group of artists.The informally noted leader of the group was dramatic and acclaimed Blaue Reiter,Futurist- Expressionist fellow Russian artist David D. Burliuk. Emigre artists who would later be involved in the group came to America around the same time but under different circumstances. Burliuk and Cikovsky left an unhospitable Bolshevik Russia following Worl War II , arriving here in 1922 & 1923, respectively. The Soyer twins, Moses and Raphael, arrived as youngsters in 1912, fleeing Tsarist anti-Jewish persecution. John Graham (b. Ivan Dombrovski) and Arshile Gorky (formerly Vosdanig Adoian) arrived in 1920 in search of a place to make a living as artists. George Constant arrived from Greece in 1910 seeking an art education. Once in New York, these artists sought out places to exhibit their work. Ultimately, the downtown Manhattan gallery scene united them with many other artists emigre artists. Cikovsky was a member of New York City institutions, including the National Academy of Design (Associate 1968; Academician 1970); National Institute of Arts and Letters; and Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Cikovsky’s works were exhibited & won prizes in the most important exhibitions of the day, including the Brooklyn Museum's 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the National Academy of Design & Art Institute of Chicago annuals, and at the NY World’s Fair...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 8L x 6H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.

American modern painting of a mother and two children strolling in Central Park by Nicolai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. Oil on canvas laid down on hardboard. Condition is very good. Circa 1950. Overall framed in reproduction gallery frame 21.25 by 25.25 inches. BIOGRAPHY Nicolai Cikovsky (10 December 1894 — 1987) was a Russian-born American painter and artist. He was involved with Hampton Bays Art Group, Long Island, New York, along with David Burliuk, John Graham, Milton Avery, the Soyer twins Raphael Soyer, Arshile Gorky, and Moses Soyer. He is known for his calm decorative landscapes and portraits, the style of which can be described as "modernist realism". Early life and education Nicolai Cikovsky was born Nicolai Stepanovich Cickowsky on December 10, 1894, in Pinsk, Russia. He was artistically inclined from a young age. From 1910 to 1914, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Vilna with Chaïm Soutine, and from 1914 to 1918, at the Penza Royal Art School, where he met artist Vladimir Tatlin. He then served as an artist-agitator in the Red Army, taught painting at the State Free Art Studios in Yekaterinburg (along with Russian painter Aleksandr Labas). In 1921-1923, Cikovsky attended Vkhutemas with Vladimir Favorsky, Ilya Mashkov, and Pavel Kuznetsov...

New York City's Central Park, sailors in uniform, and a spring day -- Cikovsky's print has it all! It's an idyllic post-World War II scene. Even the title, Early Spring, makes the pr...

framed: 23 x 19.75 image: 15.5 x 11.5 Nicolai S. (Nicola) Cikovsky (1894 - 1984) was active/lived in New York / Russian Federation. Nicolai Cikovsky is known for Shore landscape, figure, still life and portrait painting, printmaking. His mural "Irrigation," and "Gathering Dates" is at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. (WPA, GSA) Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...

Oil on canvas painting of the iconic Bethesda Fountain in New York’s Central Park by the American painter Nicolai Cikovsky. Signed lower right and da...

Artist Nicolai Cikovsky (1894-1984) Russian/American, hand painted ceramic charger for Stonelain, circa 1950s, part of the (AAA) or Associated American Artists...

Artist Nicolai Cikovsky (1894-1984) Russian/American, hand painted ceramic charger for Stonelain circa 1940s, part of the (AAA) or Associated American Artists...

Original watercolor with graphite underlying sketching by the American artist, Nicholas Cikovsky. Signed lower right. Condition is good. Titled verso. Circa 1950. Newly matted wi...

Original watercolor with graphite underlying sketching by the American artist, Nicholai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. Titled verso. Condition is good. Newly matted and with origin...

Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nicholai Cikovsky. Cikovsky left Russian in 1923 to come to the United States. The civil war in Russia had just taken place. ...