"Spectacular or sensational elements do not interest me," wrote painter NICOLAI CIKOVSKY (1894-1984), "preferring as I do intimate subjects that I see and have contact with in everyday life -- fishing houses, gardens, ponds, city squares, parks and streets."* Cikovsky may have made this lively sketch of chickens while summering with his family in South Fork, Long Island. On the opposite page, Alonso J. Aden, director of the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, D.C., wrote a receipt for a painting that Cikovsky had given the gallery for inaugural exhibition, American Paintings for the Home.
* Nicolai Cikovsky statement in Nicolai Cikovsky: Oil Paintings, New York: Associated American Artists Galleries, 1952.
Nicolai Cikovsky Sketchbook, 1943, 5 x 7:3/4 in. Study of chickens, watercolor wash and ink on paper. Nicolai Cikovsky Papers, Archives of American Art.
Description of Nicolai Cikovsky's Papers |
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| CREATOR: | Cikovsky, Nicolai, 1894- |
| TITLE: | Nicolai Cikovsky papers, 1939-1964. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: | 80 items (on partial microfilm reel). reel D254 |
| BIO/HISTORICAL NOTE: | Painter, muralist; New York, N.Y. |
| SUMMARY: | Correspondence, 1941-1960; exhibition catalogs; clippings; a sketchbook (20.2 x 12.5 cm., 21 pages drawn), pencil, ink & watercolor on paper, signed, 1943; and photographs. Among the photographs are 2 of Cikovsky, 1 of him in his studio which was once occupied by Frank Duveneck, 6 of exhibits at the Carnegie Institute, 1944-1950, and 40 of his art work, including 4 of the Treasury Dept. Fine Arts Project-sponsored Dept. of Interior murals and 3 of cartoons for that mural, 1938; 3 of the Treasury Dept. Section of Painting & Sculpture-sponsored mural painting entitled, "The Old Tavern," in the Silver Spring, Maryland post office, shown with Cikovsky and postmaster, 1936, and 5 of cartoons for the Treasury Dept. Section of Fine Arts-sponsored murals for the post office in Towson, Maryland, 1939. |
| RESTRICTIONS: | Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| PROVENANCE: | Donated 1966 by Nicolai Cikovsky. |
| ADDITIONAL FORMS: | 35mm microfilm reel D254 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. |
