In the museum’s inaugural exhibit, nearly 100 landscapes, portraits and genre paintings depict life in many of the 15 former USSR republics during the Soviet era (1921-1991). As the government encouraged artists to record social progress throughout the vast reaches of the land, the artists also responded to their own creative visions. A brochure for […] Read more
The remarkable photographs of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii offer a haunting glimpse into a lost world— the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. With the support of Tsar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorskii traveled throughout the vast reaches of the Russian Empire, carefully documenting its people, architecture, landscape and […] Read more
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operation Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
