TRADITIONAL ~ EARLY CALIFORNIA

Alexis Podchernikoff - "Figures in a Eucalyptus Grove"

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Landscape painter Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff was born in Vladimir, Russia in 1886 into a family of artists. Podchernikoff first studied art with his grandfather Dmitri Zolotarieff and later with Ilya Repin and Verestchagin. In Moscow he was awarded a gold medal and his work "My Beloved Russian Woods" was purchased by the Royal Art Commission.
  He emigrated to the U.S. in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War and settled in San Francisco. His last years were spent in Pasadena where he died on Oct. 31, 1933 of tuberculosis. Works held: Oakland Museum; Royal Art Commission, Moscow.

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