Gerasimov Aleksandr Mikhailovich
The train is rushing.

The train is rushing.
Year: 1934.
Technique: Paper, graphite pencil, watercolor, gouache.
Size: 64х49.

On the back, there is a drawing of "Hookah Lovers".

Gerasimov Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1881, Tambov Region – 1963, Moscow)

Russian, Soviet artist-painter, architect, sculptor, teacher, professor. The first president of the USSR Academy of Arts in 1947-1957. Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts. People's Artist of the USSR. Winner of four Stalin Prizes. In 1903-1915 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with K. A. Korovin, A. E. Arkhipov and V. A. Serov. In 1915 he was mobilized into the army and until 1917 he was on the fronts of the First World War. Participant of exhibitions since 1907: Independent Associations (1909–1911), “Free Creativity“ (1911–1918), TPHV (1913–1915), AHRR (1925–1932), World Exhibitions in New York (1937), Brussels (1958 – gold medal) and others. In 1925 he joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and taught at the School of Memory of 1905. In the summer of 1934, he received a creative trip for three months to Germany, France, Italy and Turkey. In 1939-1954 he was chairman of the organizing committee of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Works by A.M. Gerasimov are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin and in many other museums.