Vasily Polenov

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.







His works won the admiration of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who acquired many of them for his gallery.

In the late 1870s, Polenov concentrated on painting landscapes in the realist tradition of Aleksey Savrasov and Fyodor Vasilyev. He attempted to impart the silent poetry of Russian nature, related to daily human life.

Grandma's Garden

He was one of the first Russian artists who achieved a plein air freshness of color combined with artistic finish of composition (The Grandmother's garden, 1878; Overgrown pond, 1879). The principles developed by Polenov had a great impact on further development of Russian landscape painting.

Russian courtyard