Red twilight. 1969. Painting by Soviet artist Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov 1916-1995
Soviet artist Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov – representative of socialist realism. People’s Artist of the USSR (1986), he was the winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952).
Known mainly as a landscape painter, Shcherbakov worked in the genre of historical painting, portrait, and still life. Participated in exhibitions since 1939. He received the last Stalin Prize together with a group of artists for the painting “Meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.” Also, he was the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973).
Born March 25 (April 7) in 1916 in Petrograd, Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov grew up in the family of the artist VS Shcherbakov, a pupil of Ilya Repin. In 1933 he entered the All-Russian Academy of Arts, from which he successfully graduated in 1939. He studied in the workshops of I. Brodsky, V. Yakovlev, and P. Shukhmin.
April sun. 1975. Painting by Soviet artist Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov 1916-1995
The Great Patriotic War began for the artist in the role of a sapper, who mined the approaches to Moscow in 1941. Subsequently, Shcherbakov continued his service in the acting army in the role of a front-line artist, performing more than eighty works on front-line topics.
Diploma work of Boris Shcherbakov “The editorial office of the Pravda newspaper, the year 1917”, shown at the All-Union exhibition in Moscow, and the reproduction of which appeared in the magazine “Ogonyok.” Meanwhile, magazine “Ogonek” published many works of the artist. Besides, his paintings were presented as gifts to foreign diplomatic delegations and missions, and actively sold abroad. In fact, the creative heritage of Shcherbakov is scattered all over the world – from New York to Tokyo.
Flax blossoms. 1956. Soviet artist Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov
Currently, Boris Shcherbakov’s paintings are in many museums of the former USSR, including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum. In addition, in regional museums, and many museums around the world, in diplomatic and state offices, including the US Congress, and the White House.
Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov died on July 25, 1995, was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery near his father.
A pond
A.S. Pushkin in St. Petersburg
At the end of September. 1962
At the village of Lebyazhy. Cardboard, canvas, oil. 1973
Big pond. 1976
Blooming Spring
Boats on the river
Winter day. Oil on cardboard. 1977
Sunny Sufrudzhi. 1953. Oil, canvas, cardboard
Yellowed birches. 1958. Oil on canvas on cardboard, oil
Budapest. 1974
By the evening. Lake Malenets. Mikhailovskoe, 1978
End of September. Evening. 1989
Evening in Kizhi. 1994
Evening in the mountains near Riza lake. 1953
Experienced poplars on the Migulyanka. Cardboard, canvas, oil. 1974
Expanses of The Volga area. 1978
Gifts of the Earth. 1950
Grapes
Hawthorn blooms. 1969
House of Anton Chekhov in Taganrog, 1976
In the forest wilderness. 1973
In the Ural mountains
In the vicinity of Puriha. 1950
In the woods. After the battles, the 1940s
June in Moscow suburbs. 1984
Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, 1978
Lovers. 1951
Lyukovo dacha. 1960
Meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1951 (co-authors – V.S. Efanov, A.M. Gritsay, L.S. Kotlyarov, K.Maksimov, B.V. Stavitsky, P.S. Sudakov)
Mills in the vicinity of Larga village, 1970
One of the series of paintings devoted to the river. The Don is silent. Cardboard, oil. 1974
Pushkin over the lake in the evening, 1978
Rostov Kremlin by the evening. 1973
Seeing off. Railway station
Self-portrait. 1948
Self-portrait. 1970s
Silence. Zaonezhie. 1979
Sky flashes. Rostov the Great. 1973
Spring Flooding of the Volga. 1963
Spring morning. Kochaki, 1975
Stormy Whirlwinds, 1973
Summer landscape
Sunflowers growing. Cardboard, oil. 1970. Toliyatti art museum
Tarusa in the evening, 1953
The age-old guards. Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, 1984
The Dniester. At the pier
The mountains disappeared into the clouds. Caucasus, 1953
The Volga
US president Richard Nikson with the painting Winter Day by Boris Shcherbakov
VI Lenin and F.E. Dzerzhinsky
VI Lenin at the AM Gorky’s. October 1920
Vyoshensky willows. 1974
VV Shcherbakov (Moscow). Dinner in the village. Mitseevo. 1980-1981. Canvas, oil
Waiting. Cardboard. Oil. 1973
Waters going down. 1969
White ravine. Moldova, 1968
Winter landscape. 1973
Year 1917. The editorial staff of the newspaper Pravda
Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov. Illustrated album. Soviet Artist. 1978. Moscow