Zonal Art Exhibition "Leningrad" (Leningrad, 1964) () became one of the most significant, successful and productive events in the history of Soviet art exhibitions of the 1960s through the 1980s. The exhibition took place in State Russian Museum.
History and organization
The Zonal Art Exhibition "Leningrad" was opened at November 3, 1964. Organization and preparation of the Zonal Exhibition engaged a specially formed Exhibition Committee which consisted of 56 of the most authoritative art-experts. Among them were Mikhail Anikushin, Boris Korneev, Anatoli Levitin, Yuri Neprintsev, Gleb Savinov, Joseph Serebriany, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Boris Ugarov, Vecheslav Zagonek, Alexander Zaytsev, and others. It was published a catalog of the exhibition. Over 1200 Leningrad artists participated in the exhibition, which featured 2,000 pieces of artwork from painters, sculptors, graphic artists, masters of arts and crafts, and theater and film artists.
Contributing artists
In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited 712 art works of 281 authors. There were Piotr Alberti, Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Sergei Babkov, Irina Baldina, Andrei Bantikov, Nikolai Baskakov, Leonid Baykov, Evgenia Baykova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Yuri Belov, Piotr Belousov, Dmitry Belyaev, Olga Bogaevskaya, Lev Bogomolets, Nikolai Brandt, Dmitry Buchkin, Piotr Buchkin, Zlata Bizova, Lev Chegorovsky, Vladimir Chekalov, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Ivan Godlevsky, Vasily Golubev, Tatiana Gorb, Abram Grushko, Oleg Eremeev, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, Mikhail Kozell, Marina Kozlovskaya, Tatiana Kopnina, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Valeria Larina, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Anatoli Levitin, Piotr Litvinsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Eugene Maltsev, Boris Maluev, Yuri Mezhirov, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Andrei Mylnikov, Piotr Nazarov, Vera Nazina, Mikhail Natarevich, Anatoli Nenartovich, Yuri Neprintsev, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Victor Oreshnikov, Sergei Osipov, Lia Ostrova, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Filaret Pakun, Yuri Pavlov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Varlen Pen, Nikolai Pozdneev, Stepan Privedentsev, Alexander Pushnin, Semion Rotnitsky, Galina Rumiantseva, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Sakson, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vladimir Seleznev, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Joseph Serebriany, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, Kim Slavin, Galina Smirnova, Alexander Sokolov, Ivan Sorokin, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Boris Ugarov, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Piotr Vasiliev, Valery Vatenin, Lazar Yazgur, Vecheslav Zagonek, Sergei Zakharov, Ruben Zakharian, Alexander Zaytsev, Elena Zhukova, and others most prominent painters of the Leningrad School.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 300 sculptors, among them were Nathan Altman, Mikhail Anikushin, Vladimir Ingal, Andrei Khaustov, Nikolai Kochukov, Alexey Koroluck, Igor Krestovsky, Levon Lazarev, Konstantin Simun, Iya Venkova, and others. Department of graphics presented a creation of 82 artists, among them were Piotr Belousov, Sergei Frolov, Tatiana Gorb, Mikhail Kaneev, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Yuri Neprintsev, Victor Oreshnikov, Alexei Pakhomov, Varlen Pen, Alexander Vedernikov, Vladimir Vetrogonsky, and others. In the Department of Theatric and Scenery art were exhibited art works of 38 artists, among them were Nathan Altman, Mikhail Bobyshov, Tatiana Bruni, Eugene Eney, Eduard Kochergin, Bella Manevich-Kaplan, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Unovich Sophya, and others.
Contributed artworks
For the exhibition were selected artworks created in the years of 1963–1964, as well as some earlier works. All were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of leading Soviet art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.