By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Southampton, NY
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...
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1950s American Modern Nicolai Cikovsky Paintings