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Who painted it?
Who painted “On the Island of Valaam”?
“On the Island of Valaam” was painted by Arkhip Kuindzhi in 1873. Where to see it: Tretyakov Gallery.
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Arkhip Kuindzhi: dramatic light effects: moonlight on rivers, glowing sunsets, intense colour contrasts and dark landscapes.
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (27 January 1841 – 24 July 1910) was a Russian landscape painter of Urum (Crimean Greek) origin. Wikipedia
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More by Arkhip Kuindzhi
- “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper”, 1880
- “A Birch Grove”, 1879
- “Evening in Ukraine”, 1878
- “Ukrainian Night”, 1876
- “Chumaks path in Mariupol”, 1875
- “Red Sunset on the Dnieper”, 1900
- “Dnieper in the morning”, 1881
- “Lake Ladoga”, 1873