Malayaroslavets City Art Gallery
lenin Square, 17, Maloyaroslavets
About the company:
Maloyaroslavetsk city art gallery was founded in 1992 in the former strange house of the Chernoostrovsky monastery - an architectural monument of the late XIX - early XX centuries. Since 2000, it is located in another building - in the city center. The gallery has four exhibition halls. On the exhibition area of just over 90 square meters. m 404 exhibits are presented.
The museum introduces the work of the honored artist of Russia E.A. Chernyavskaya, the founder of the Soviet lubok A.E. Kulikov and his son - artist V.A. Kulikov. Among the exhibits are “Self-Portrait” by A. E. Kulikov, “Self-Portrait” by E. A. Chernyavskaya, “You Give a Kolkhoz!” by V. A. Kulikov, portraits, landscapes, still lifes.
About 200 works of modern, mainly regional, artists were collected (N. Morozov, N. Volkov, A. Arepev, E. Glazkov, A. Nenstil, etc.). Interesting etchings Obnin artists A. Shubin and N. Kitaeva, the work of L. Kiselyova (Borovsk). The sculpture department presents 30 works by wood sculptor S. Smirnov (Maloyaroslavets). The section of decorative and applied art includes samples of Bogorod and Dymkov toys, majolica, tapestry, batik, coinage, floral design, miniatures on the birch bark of the local author I. Shevchenko. The gallery has copies of the work of the famous master-incrustator and wood restorer V. Matveichev, as well as the works of his followers.