Gerasimov Sergei Vasilevich
1885-1964
Born in Mozhaisk, Moscow pr., 1885.Studied at Stroganov College 1901-07; Moscow College of Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture 1907-12.
Active inMoscow.
Began exhibiting 1906.
Member of Makovets 1921/22?-25; OMKh 1928-29, Akhr 1930-32.
Exhibited with World of Art 1921.
Important shows include "First Russian Art Exhibition" Berlin, 1922;
"Anti-Imperialist Exhibition" Moscow, 1931;
"Artists of the Russian Federation over fifteen years" Leningrad, 1932, Moscow, 1933;
"Fiften years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" Moscow, 1933;
"Industry of Socialism" Moscow, 1939;
"All-Union Art Exhibition" Moscow, 1947,1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955;
"Soviet Russia" Moscow, 1960.
Specialised in landscapes, thematic paintings. Well-known works include "The oath of the Siberian Partisans" 1933, Russian Museum;
"Collective-Farm Festival" 1936-37, Tretyakov Gallery;
"The Mother of a Partisan" 1943, reworked 1949-50, Trtyakov Gallery.
Chairman of Moscow Artists'Union during Stalin's years; first Secretary of USSR Union of Artists 1958-64.
Became a Soviet academician 1947.
Also a book illustrator.
Decorated festivals in Moscow 1918.
Leading 'liberal' member of Stalin's arts establishment.
Author "Ob Iskusstve".
Died in Moscow 1964.
