Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Painting of man who is seated with his hands over his lap. He is dressed in prayer clothes, with a white shawl draped over his head and shoulders. His facial features and hands are slightly distorted, and the background is an abstract pattern of black and white.

The Praying Jew, 1923 (one of two versions after a 1914 composition)

Marc Chagall

A work made of oil on canvas.

Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension, Summer/fall 1915

Kasimir Malevich

A work made of oil on canvas.

Haunted House, 1930

Morris Kantor

A work made of oil on canvas.

Buoy, 1941

Peter Blume

Vibrant yellow, red, blue, and green painting of landscape with trees and mountains.

Landscape with Two Poplars, 1912

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of brush with brown, blue, black, gray, and red watercolor over graphite, on cream laid paper.

Russian Peasant, n.d.

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

A work made of walnut, iron, gold, and silver.

Double-Barreled Flintlock Blunderbuss, 1800

A work made of chromogenic print.

Social Services, Russian Immigrants, Ark., 1993

Jay Wolke

A work made of oil on canvas.

Dead Fowl, 1926

Chaim Soutine

A work made of wood engraving on paper.

The Russian Ball—In the Supper Room, published November 21, 1863

Winslow Homer

A colorful, lively scene, fragmented and abstracted, of numerous people on wooden floor, rolling green hills behind them. Figures include a nude woman on a bed, an aproned woman with bucket, and man with a long white beard. A figure on the hill at top right does a cartwheel or handstand.

Birth, 1911/12

Marc Chagall

A work made of porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding.

Plate, 1855/81

Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory

A work made of graphite on white wove paper.

White Cross, from Russian Room, n.d.

Imi Knoebel

A work made of stencil.

"New" Europe, October 25, 1944

Kukryniksy

A work made of gelatin silver (chloride) print.

Portrait of a Russian Boy, 1929

Alexander Leventon

A work made of collage of black lacquered paper squares with graphite on white wove paper.

Big Russian Wall, from Russian Room, n.d.

Imi Knoebel

A work made of oil on canvas.

Strange Worlds, 1928

Todros Geller

A work made of steel, gilding, silver, walnut, and horn.

Flintlock Fowling Piece Given by the Empress Catherine II of Russia to the French Ambassador, 1745 and 1763

Ilya Salishchev

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Circus Rider, c. 1927

Marc Chagall

A work made of watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor on ivory wove paper.

Untitled, c. 1915

Vasily Kandinsky