Third National Art Exhibition "Soviet Russia" (Moscow, 1967) () became a main national art event of 1967, as well as one of the largest Soviet art exhibitions of the 1960s. The exhibition took place in Manezh Exhibition Hall.
History and organization
The exhibition opened on September 20, 1967, in Moscow Manege. Organization and preparation of the Second National Art Exhibition "Soviet Russia" engaged a specially formed Exhibition Committee in the amount of 83 most authoritative experts in the field of fine arts under head of Vladimir Serov. It published a catalog of the exhibition. In total, the Exhibition displayed over 2,000 works of art of painters, sculptors, graphics, masters of arts and crafts, artists of theater and cinema. Many of art works have been purchased for the largest Soviet art museums, including the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and others. After the Exhibition in Moscow there were organized traveling exhibitions, which have been shown in major cities of the Russian Federation.
Contributing artists
In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited over 640 art works of the important painters. There were Nikolai Baskakov, Dmitry Belyaev, Olga Bogaevskaya, Veniamin Borisov, Dmitry Buchkin, Nikolai Galakhov, Aleksei Gritsai, Aleksandr Deyneka, Vasily Yefanov, Alexei Eriomin, Boris Ioganson, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Victor Korovin, Gely Korzhev, Nikolai Kostrov, Engels Kozlov, Marina Kozlovskaya, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Kukryniksy, Boris Lavrenko, Anatoli Levitin, Oleg Lomakin, Vladimir Malevsky, Eugene Maltsev, Boris Maluev, Evsey Moiseenko, Andrei Mylnikov, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, Vera Nazina, Samuil Nevelshtein, Yuri Neprintsev, Yaroslav Nikolaev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Victor Oreshnikov, Sergei Osipov, Lia Ostrova, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Varlen Pen, Nikolai Pozdneev, Stepan Privedentsev, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Sokolov, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Ivan Varichev, Igor Veselkin, Vecheslav Zagonek, Alexander Zaytsev, and many others most prominent painters of the Russian Federation. Over 2000 art works were exhibited.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited 364 art works by over 150 authors including Mikhail Anikushin, Lev Kerbel, Alexander Kibalnikov, Sergei Konenkov, Nikolai Tomsky, Yevgeny Vuchetich, and many others most prominent sculptors of the Russian Federation.
In the Department of Graphic were exhibited 840 art works by most prominent graphic artists of the Russian Federation.
Contributed artworks
For display at the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1966-1967, as well as some earlier works. Many of them were previously shown at the city and regional Art Exhibitions and were subsequently found in the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.
Historical genre was represented by the works of "Before the assault" by Nikolai Baskakov, "Terrible the 1941 year" by Dmitry Belyaev, "Sentinels Revolution" by Dmitry Buchkin, "To Lenin" by Alexei Eriomin, "Lenin" by Lev Kerbel, "Lenin's Speech at the Obukhov Plant" by Yuri Khukhrov and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, "In steppes near Kherson" by Boris Korneev, "Barrier", "Seeing off" by Gely Korzhev, "The Prosecution (War criminals on the Nuremberg trials)" by Kukryniksy, "Roads of War" by Boris Lavrenko, "Unconquered" by Oleg Lomakin, "Year of 1905" by Vladimir Malevsky, "Native land", "The Leningrad in summer of 1942", "August 8, 1943", "Baltic sailors" by Yuri Neprintsev, "Summer of 1941 year" by Dmitry Oboznenko, "Bolshevist underground eve of the October Revolution" by Victor Oreshnikov, "Revolutionary days in Petrograd" by Stepan Privedentsev, "Barricade on Presnia" by Gleb Savinov, "Enemies" by Alexander Sokolov, "A Victory! Berlin, 1945" by Vasily Sokolov, "Karl Marx", "Portrait of Sergei Kirov", "Portrait of Vladimir Lenin" by Nikolai Tomsky, "The Front of here" by Mikhail Trufanov, "The Sorrowful news. January 21, 1924", "In Anticipation" by Yuri Tulin, "We construct a new world" by Vecheslav Zagonek, and some others.