"Bringing the Museum to You"

The Cyber Art Show continues our study of Russian landscape painters in the Public Domain with a ten-piece Exhibition of works by Sergei Vinogradov (1869-1938). Born in the village of Bolshie Soli in Kostroma Province (now Nekrasovskoe in Yaroslavl Region), he was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator and teacher.  

 

From 1880–1889 Sergei attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied under Yevgraf Sorokin,Vladimir Makovsky, Illarion Pryanishnikov and Vasily Polenov. Later, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde and Carl Wenig. He was awarded minor silver medals and a major silver medal in 1885-86, earning the title of class artist  in 1888.

 

Vinogradov lived in Kharkiv 1891–96, where he taught drawing in a trade school. He returned to Moscow in 1896 where he collaborated with Alexei Stupin at the Publishing House and taught at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry.

 

At the turn of the century, Vinogradov joined the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions and visited Europe with collector Mikhail Morozov. In 1903 he became a founding member of the Union of Russian Artists, where he would become chairman from 1910–24. In 1911 Vinogradov also became a member of the Oryol Society of Fine Arts and a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1916.

 

Vinogradov headed the committee organizing the travelling exhibition of Russian art to the United States and Canada in 1923–24, accompanying the exhibition to New York.

 

In 1924 he moved to Riga and taught in the studio of Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, eventually opening his own private school in 1926. Sergei Vinogradov died of pneumonia in Riga in 1938 and was buried at the Pokrova kapi.