Kazakh Art Gallery

Kazakh Art Gallery

 

(full name, T. G. Shevchenko Kazakh Art Gallery). Founded in 1935, the gallery is located in Alma-Ata. Its fine arts collection and decorative-applied arts collection include 10, 000 Kazakh, prerevolutionary and Soviet Russian, Western European, and oriental works.

The Kazakh section includes works by A. M. Cherkasskii, A. Kasteev, M. S. Lizogub, Kh. Khodzhilov, A. Ismailov, N.-B. Nurmukhammedov, M. S. Kenbaev, Kh. I. Naurzbaev, K. T. Tel’zhanov, S. A. Mambeev, and E. M. Sidorkin. The Russian section contains the works of D. G. Levitskii, V. A. Tropinin, K. P. Briullov, A. K. Savrasov, I. E. Repin, A. S. Golubkina, B. M. Kustodiev, V. E. Borisov-Musatov, Z. E. Serebriakova, and K. S. Petrov-Vodkin. The Soviet section comprises the works of K. F. Iuon, P. P. Konchalovskii, M. S. Sar’ian, S. D. Lebedeva, P. D. Korin, A. A. Plastov, A. A. Deineka, Ia. D. Romas, U. Tansykbaev, E. F. Belashova, G. A. Aitiev, T. N. Iablonskaia, P. F. Nikonov, and A. G. Pologova. The Western European section includes the works of J. B. C. Corot, N. V. Diaz de la Peña, and C. F. Daubigny. The applied arts section of works from China, India, and Japan includes 20th-century works.

REFERENCES

Kazakhskaia khudozhestvennaia galereia im. T. G. Shevchenko. Katalog. Issues 1–6, Alma-Ata, 1961–72; issue 7, Moscow, 1971.
Plakhotnaia L., and I. Kuchis. Kazakhskaia gosudarstvennaia khudo-zhestvennaia galereia im T. G. Shevchenko. [Album, text by I. Kuchis.] Moscow, 1966.

L. G. PLAKHOTNAIA