Pelagia Petrovna Kuryar (nee Vokhina ; 1848 - 1898 ) is a Russian landscape painter , an honorary free-style associate of the Academy of Fine Arts .
| Pelageya Petrovna Kuryar | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Pelageya Petrovna Vohina |
| Date of Birth | 1848 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | December 3, 1898 |
| A place of death | St. Petersburg |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Awards | 2 silver medals of IAH |
| Ranks | free community IAH (1882) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Gallery
- 3 notes
- 4 Sources
Biography
The daughter of Lieutenant General P.V. Vokhin [1] . She was educated under the guidance of Professor L. F. Lagorio , first appeared with her works at public exhibitions in 1876 ; received 2 silver medals, was recognized in 1882 as an honorary free-lance member of the Imperial Academy of Arts . In the same year, she organized the First Ladies' Art Circle in St. Petersburg , a society of amateur artists, aiming at their mutual rapprochement, organization of pleasant and useful pastime at special art evenings, and the provision of material assistance to needy artists and their families.
Until 1894, she was the chairman and the most zealous participant in this society, which mainly owes to her the consolidation of her position and subsequent prosperity.
She published, under the title: “From Our Fields”, an album of chromolithographs reproducing the watercolor drawings of the field flowers of the Russian flora performed by her from nature.
She died in 1898 . She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg .
Gallery
The best of her paintings can be considered:
- "In the reeds";
- "Swamp";
- "Oak trees",
- "View near the Red Village" and some others.
- Examples of works by Pelagia Curiar
Mill
Rural landscape
Summer landscape
Winter landscape
May evening
Notes
- ↑ Our Artists, 1889 , p. 227.
Sources
- Curiare, Pelageya Petrovna // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- F.I. Bulgakov. Our artists (painters, sculptors, mosaicists, engravers and medalists) at academic exhibitions of the last 25 years. Biographies, portraits of artists and pictures from their works. - SPb. : Printing house of A. S. Suvorin, 1889. - T. 1. - S. 227—229. - 234 p.