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Artist: Victor Arnautoff
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting

"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting

By Victor Michail Arnautoff

Located in New York, NY

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896 - 1979) Motion (Mile Rocks Lighthouse), San Francisco, 1939 Oil and tempera on board 60 x 40 inches Signed lower left Provenance: The artist California School of Fine Arts (CFSA) John & Lynne Bolen Fine Arts, Huntington Beach, California Exhibited: New York, World's Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, 1939. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1962. Literature: American Art from the New York World's Fair 1939, Poughkeepsie, 1987, no. 11, p. 41, illustrated. Robert W. Cherny, Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, Urbana, Illinois, 2017. The lighthouse in the distance is the Mile Rocks Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay, built in 1906 after many shipwrecks made the lighthouse necessary. In 1962 the lighthouse was reduced in size to make room for a helipad. Arnautoff was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. He showed a talent for art from an early age and hoped to study art after graduating from the gymnasium in Mariupol. With the outbreak of World War I, he enrolled in the Yelizavetgrad Cavalry School. He went on to hold military leadership positions in the army of Nicholas II and the White Siberian army. With the defeat of the Whites in Siberia, he crossed into northeastern China and surrendered his weapons. Arnautoff remained in China for five years. He again tried to pursue art, but was impoverished and took a position training the cavalry of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. He met and married Lydia Blonsky and they had two sons, Michael and Vasily. In November 1925 Arnautoff went to San Francisco on a student visa to study at the California School of Fine Arts. There he studied sculpture with Edgar Walter and painting with several instructors. His wife and children joined him, and they all continued to Mexico in 1929, where, on Ralph Stackpole...

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1930s American Realist Victor Arnautoff Art

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Canvas, Oil, Tempera

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coit Tower California SF
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coit Tower California SF

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coit Tower California SF

By Victor Michail Arnautoff

Located in New York, NY

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coit Tower California SF Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) City Street 12 x 14 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left BIO Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...

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1930s American Realist Victor Arnautoff Art

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