Abstract

The life of Russian painter Nikolai Nedashkovsky (1896-1924)wasa light thatburnedbrieflybutbrightly, leaving behind work of creative inventiveness and use of color, revealing an imaginative world that perhaps transcended the time and place in which it was wrought. Indeed, the following would be noted about the artist and hiswork: “Another adventurer in the realmof chromatic landscape is Nikolai Nedashkovsky. ... [H]is canvases relate to the new school, wherein the actual landscape is expressed in pure color and significant form that tell of its eternal verities rather than its passing mood. His brush is brave and his results show an understanding that is yet formative but progressive. ... ” (Modern Russian Paintings in San Francisco Show: San Francisco, April 4: Special Correspondence. The Christian Science Monitor, Boston. April 16, 1928:16.GH). Nedashkovsky was said to have been a student of the noted painter Konstantin Korovin. He was active in the artistic social circles of his colleagues and is thought to have been a member of a Russian art society known as Boodiak. As war and revolution shook Russia in the early 20th century, Nedashkovsky traveled to Japan. Here he and another artist, Sergei Scherbakov, found a natural beauty in scenic

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