The works of this outstanding artist enjoy vast popularity in Russia; the best of them have become the classics of Russian landscape painting. During 40 years of his artistic activity Ivan Shishkin produced hundreds of paintings, thousands of studies and drawings and a large number of engravings. For contemporaries, Shishkin’s personality embodied Russian nature itself; they called him “forest tzar”, “old pine tree”, and “lonely oak”.
1856. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1859. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1863. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1865. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1865. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1865. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1867. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1869. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1869. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1869. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1869. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1870. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1860s-1870s. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1870. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Picture Gallery, Taganrog, Russia.
1872. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1873. Oil on canvas. The Belorussian Museum of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.
1874. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
1874. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
Shishkin by I. Shuvalova. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1990.