Description of the attraction
On the basis of the art department of the Vologda Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Vologda Regional Art Gallery was organized in 1952 and in February 1954 it was opened to visitors. Today it is the only art gallery in the region. In 1962, the Leningrad art critic and collector P. E. Kornilov donated over 550 works of graphics, painting and sculpture of the 19th-20th centuries to the gallery. At the moment, the VOKG funds have more than 30 thousand exhibits, represented by graphics, painting, sculpture and works of folk, decorative and applied art.
The central exhibition hall of the gallery is located in the building of the Resurrection Cathedral, erected at the end of the 18th century, or rather in the 70s, according to the project of the local architect Zlatitsky. This is one of the rare monuments of the city's Baroque architecture. This building of the temple is part of the Vologda Kremlin.
The structure of the gallery consists of four exhibition buildings: the Museum and Creative Center "House of Korbakov", the Shalamovsky House, the Central Exhibition Hall, as well as the A. V. Panteleev, Honored Artist of Russia. The collection of the art gallery presents outstanding works of art of ancient Russia, Russian art from the 18th - early 20th centuries, Soviet and Western European art, works of peculiar Russian graphics of the 19th - 20th centuries, works of local graphic artists and artists.
The basis of the collection of Russian art is represented by paintings and graphic works by V. M. Vasnetsova, V. L. Borovikovsky, M. A. Vrubel, M. V. Nesterova, M. P. Klodt, A. N. Benois, K. Ya. Kryzhitsky, A. I. Kuindzhi and others.
The collection of works of art from Western Europe is relatively small, and mainly consists of reproduction engravings of the 17th-19th centuries. The art gallery displays the works of many famous graphic artists: Gerard Audran, Gustave Dore, Francesco Bartolozzi, Egidius Sadeler, Paul Gavarnie, Raphael Morgen, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and others. Despite the small number of works of painting and applied art, almost all major Western European schools are represented in the museum. Here are the works of world-renowned masters, every now and then you come across such famous names as Alexander Kalam, Jan Bot, Jan Minze Molenaire, Augustus Van den Steen, Pietro Bazzanti, Louis Robe, Victor Evrard, Antonio Leto and others.
The exhibited canvases constitute a kind of ensemble of harmony, creative inspiration and beauty. Famous, unknown, and sometimes anonymous creators left us their thoughts about life, captured them in their favorite landscapes, in portraits of contemporaries, in everyday sketches and in great historical scenes.
The graphics section of the museum is well known, as well as the collection of works by the most eminent Vologda painters (V. N. Korbakov, G. I. Popov, T. Tutundzhan, A. V. Panteleev, Y. Yu. A. Sergeeva, G. N. and N. V. Burmagin and others) and specialists of folk, as well as decorative and applied arts. All the works that are collected in the art gallery help to expand the understanding of the development of art in the Vologda Territory, which is the most ancient cultural center of the North of Russia.
The Vologda Picture Gallery also provides educational services. Educational programs are conducted with offsite classes: "The Magic World of Art" (the event is designed for preschoolers and primary school students), master classes (for all age categories), concert programs, lectures for high school students, meetings with the creative intelligentsia of Vologda.
