Questions on N.V. Kashina's painting "Happy Childhood" (1931)
Margaret Samu <[email protected]>
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I'm passing along a message sent by Kirill Tolpygo to a list for Slavic librarians, forwarded to me by Kristen Regina at Hillwood. If you can help Kirill, please respond to him directly at [email protected] Margaret Samu ===================== Dear Colleagues, I am trying to track down a published reproduction of a painting, for which I have the following data: Artist: Nadezhda Vasil’evna Kashina (1896-1977) Title: Happy Childhood (presumably, Schastlivoe detstvo?) Year: 1931 There is a reproduction in ArtStore (attached), if you have access to ArtStore: http://library.artstor.org/library/secure/ViewImages?id=8CJGczI9NzldLS1WEDhzTnkrX3opflx4eyQ%3D&userId=gDNHeDw%3D<http://library.artstor.org/library/secure/ViewImages?id=8CJGczI9NzldLS1WEDhzTnkrX3opflx4eyQ%3D&userId=gDNHeDw%3D> The data in ArtStore is somewhat suspect, at least judging from the corrupted patronymic. UC San Diego, which supplied the digital image/data no longer has any information pertaining to the acquisition and rights to this image. The Experimental Cultural-Commercial Center Prem’era (Экспериментальный культурно-коммерческий центр Премьера), listed as the original repository appears to be defunct. Surprisingly, there is no mention of the painting in N.V. Kashina: zhizn’ i tvorchestvo, 1896-1977 by R.Kh. Taktash. Tashkent : Izd-vo lit-ry I iskusstva im. Gafura Guliama, 1982 – and it’s not listed in this book’s rather extensive (10 p.) list of the artist’s major works. I have tried every album of Soviet and Uzbek art, socialist realism, catalogs etc. that I could get my hands on at UNC Chapel Hill to no avail. When Kashina is included in these publications (which is seldom), paintings in a very different style are typically reproduced. Moreover, all her paintings from this time period (early 1930s) that I have seen are done in a rather different style. At this point I am starting to question the data I have. Is this painting actually from 1931? What was its actual title? Is it even by Kashina? If anyone has any advice, or could shed some light on this mystery for me – off list, I would be very grateful. Regards, Kirill ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirill Tolpygo Interim, Librarian for Slavic & East European Resources & Curator of the Andre Savine Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PO Box 8890, Davis Library, CB #3918, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890, USA | T: 00 + 1 + (919) 962-3740 _______________________________________________ Shera mailing list [email protected] http://lists.oakland.edu/mailman/listinfo/shera