Cranbury Lake

Artist Nicolai Cikovsky (American, born Russia, 1894 - 1984)

Dateca. 1933

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 40 inches (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 35 3/8 × 45 3/8 inches (89.85 × 115.25 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art

Object number37-2

SignedSigned lower right: N. Cikovsky

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionLandscape with a broken ledge of brown earth and rocks in the foreground; green fields and trees in middleground; green hills in background.Published References

Published References

Nicolai Cikovsky, exh. brochure (New York: Downtown Gallery, 1935), 2; Catalogue of the Forty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), unpaginated;

“Friends of Art to Meet,” Kansas City Times, 21 January 1937, 6;

“Friends of Art Select Gift,” Kansas City Times, 22 January 1937, 9;

“Painting Purchased by Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, 24 January 1937, 10A;

“In Gallery and Stu dio,” Kansas City Star, 29 January 1937, 20;

“Friends of Art Gift Is Nelson Gallery Masterpiece of Month,” Kansas City Journal Post, 31 January 1937, 2B;

News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gal lery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 3 (1 February 1937), 2;

“Kansas City: A Nicolai Cikovsky,” Art News 35 (6 Febru ary 1937), 18;

“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, 5 March 1937, 15;

“Art News,” Kansas City Journal Post, 7 March 1937, 2B;

H[enry] C. H[askell], “Art and Artists: The Friends of Art Present a Still Life to the Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 16 December 1938, 18;

H[enry] C. H[askell], “The Friends of Art Present a Portrait to the Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 29 December 1939, 6;

NAMA 1940, 23; NAMA 1941, 166;

“Modern Painters Are Aided by the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, 13 April 1947, 9D;

Winifred Shields, “A Special Collection of Works Is Growing at Nelson Gal lery,” Kansas City Star, 19 May 1950, 28;

Winifred Shields, “Key Role at Art Gallery Filled by Society of 500,” Kansas City Star, 4 January 1953, 8D;

Winifred Shields, “Art and Artists: Rare Sculp ture from France Acquired by Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 16 December 1955, 6;

NAMA 1959, 255; NAMA 1973, 251.

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