Drawing on the Museum’s rich collection of Soviet-era holiday memorabilia, A Hundred Rare Ornaments presents a selection of spun cotton figurines used for tree decoration in the USSR in the 1930s through 1950s. These eco-friendly ornaments are some of the oldest on the holiday market, originating from 19th century Germany. Imperial Russia produced their own, and the Soviet Union took over the tradition. Spun cotton ornaments were widespread in the 1930s […] Read more
The exhibition of paintings by Pam Ingalls presents thirty-two works by this figurative artist, displayed in TMORA’s Fireside Gallery. Pam Ingalls loves to paint light falling on ordinary people, objects, and scenes. Raised in Spokane, Washington, she was first inspired by her parents, artists Richard and Marjorie Ingalls. She studied art at the Accademia Di […] Read more
The exhibition Women in Soviet Art brings together thirty paintings by prominent Soviet artists to examine the visual representations of women during the Soviet era. Avoiding traditional depictions of the cloistered feminine world, Soviet art passionately propagated the images of women as active contributors to the socialist economy. From the TMORA permanent Collection, and on […] Read more
The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is pleased to present Peasant Women of the Russian North: Heritage of a Culture Lost. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, over 100 rare artifacts reveal the rich peasant culture in northern and central Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before the Soviet collectivization of farmland, […] Read more
The Museum of Russian Art presents an exhibition of more than thirty rare works by Anatoly Zverev, from the collection of Peter and Alexandra Rose. A legendary figure of the Moscow underground art scene in post-Stalinist Moscow, Anatoli Zverev was a rebel who defied conventions, standards, and rules both in his art and in his […] Read more
