Description of the attraction
The Yaroslavl Art Museum was organized on December 5, 1919 at the initiative of local lovers of antiquity and artists. His activity began with an educational campaign - an exhibition was organized at the Krasny Perekop weaving factory in April 1920. In autumn, the museum received its first visitors to the permanent exhibition, which was located in the building of the former Consistory (architect L. Ruska).
Until 1924, the museum had the status of an art gallery, from 1924 to 1936 it was subordinate to the regional museum, from 1937 to 1950 it was called the regional museum of arts, from 1950 to 1959 the Yaroslavl Regional Art Museum, from 1959 to 1969 - the art department of Yaroslavo -Rostov Museum-Reserve, since 1969 received its current status.
The Yaroslavl Art Museum is the largest museum of art in the province; it won the "Window to Russia" competition. Its collection includes more than 70,000 works of graphics, painting, arts and crafts, numismatics, and sculpture.
In the museum, you can see works of Old Russian painting dating back to the 13th century, among which the icon "Savior Almighty" (the first half of the 13th century), as well as the icon "Our Lady of Tolgskaya" (it is located in the Tolgsky monastery, where it was transferred in 2003 to temporary storage.
It also displays unique icon-painting works related to the Yaroslavl Art School of the second half of the 16-17 centuries, incl. signed icons of Gury Nikitin, Fyodor Zubov, Semyon Kholmogorets, working in the 17th century.
The collection also includes works of wood carving, sculpture, casting of the 16-20th centuries, items of personal piety and church applied art of the 18-20th centuries.
The pictorial collection is represented by paintings by K. Bryullov, D. Levitsky, A. Mokritsky, I. Kramskoy, V. Perov, I. Repin. The portrait of the Yaroslavl nobility and merchants of the 19th century is distinguished by its originality. A rather diverse collection of landscape paintings from the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries: I. Shishkin, A. Savrasov, V. Polenov, I. Aivazovsky, K. Yuon, I. Levitan.
No less vividly presented are the works of the masters of the World of Art, the Union of Russian Artists, Jack of Diamonds, and the Russian avant-garde. A rather unique collection of works by K. Korovin kept in the museum, which includes works of the late period of the artist's work. In the painting collection of Yaroslavl artists of the 20th century, the heritage of Mikhail Sokolov is most heavily represented.
The graphics are represented by works of print run and original graphics of the 18-20th centuries by Russian authors. Of interest is the watercolor chamber portrait of the 19th century, which is represented by the works of O. Kiprensky, V. Hau, P. Sokolov and others, graphic art of the 19th and 20th centuries, among which the works of "Miriskusniki" - A. Benois, K. Somov, M. Dobuzhinsky, D. Mitrokhin, B. Kustodieva. From graphic works of the 20th century. the style of avant-garde art (V. Kandinsky and L. Popova), pre-war watercolors and drawing, some areas of contemporary art are also vividly represented.
A significant part of the collection is made up of foreign and domestic ex-libris of the 19-20 centuries.
The sculpture is presented in the works of S. Galberg, F. Tolstoy, M. Chizhoi, A. Opekushin, A. Antokolsky, A. Ober, S. Erzya, A. Gyurdzhan, S. Konenkov, as well as M. Zemelgak and Klodion, etc.
The background of decorative and applied art is represented by a collection of porcelain and glass products dating back to the 18-20 centuries, the imperial glass and porcelain factories, private factories of F. Gardner, S. Batenin, M. Kuznetsov, the Kornilov brothers, Maltsovs, etc. Also in the museum you can get acquainted with the works of furniture art of various trends and styles of the 16-20 centuries, including the Western European 16-18 centuries. Contemporary arts and crafts are represented by tapestry, ceramics and glass.
The numismatic collection of the museum is the works of Western European and Russian art of the second half of the 18-20 centuries. These are award and commemorative medals by brothers Vekhter, S. Yudin, T. Ivanov, K. Leberekht, I. Shilov, F. Tolstoy, P. Utkin, A. Vasyutinsky, I. K. Jaeger, Retiere, F. Loos, B. Andrieu, J.-C. Chaplain.
