Ivan Shishkin. Paintings. Graphic works

Year of issue: 1986 Authors: Alexey Savinov, Alexey Fedorov-Davydov. Publication language:English Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is best known as the author of numerous paintings - "Forest distances", "Debri", "Morning in a pine forest", "Rye", "Ship Grove", but the artist brilliantly mastered any technique, his drawings with pencil, charcoal, pen are so are as virtuosic as oil paintings. Love for the Fatherland determined the prevailing interest in the Russian landscape in his work. It is difficult to find a master who would be able to convey the beauty of a pine forest, the cool twilight of a thicket in such a way, who would know the structure of a tree like he does.