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Nicolai Cikovsky    (American, 1894-1987)




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Biography
Studied
Vilna Art School, Russia, 1910-1914
Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918
Moscow High Tech Art Institute, 1921-1923 

Member
National Academy of Design, Associate
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers 

Work
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
St. Louis Art Museum
Los Angeles Museum
Worcester Museum of Art
University of Arizona
Phillips Collection
Worcester Art Museum, MA
Hirschhorn Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
W. R. Nelson Gallery, Kansas City
Milwaukee Art Institute
Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Minnesota University 

Teaching
Ekaterinenburg Higher Tech Art Institute, Russia, 1919-1921
St. Paul School of Art, 1934-1935
Cincinnati Art Academy, 1935-1936
Art Institute of Chicago, 1937
Art Students League of New York
College of Notre Dame, Maryland
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932-1949
National Academy of Design, New York, 1947-1949; Purchase Prizes: 1959, 1960, 1964, and Isaac N. Maynard Prize in 1964
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1932-1955, 1966
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
New York World’s Fair, 1940
Art Institute of Chicago, 1931 (medal), 1932 (Harris Bronze Medal and Logan Purchase Prize), 1933 (prize), 1960-1961
Downtown Gallery, New York, 1933, 1938
Corcoran Gallery, 1930-1957, also solo
Toledo Museum of Art
Worcester Museum of Art, 1933 (first prize)
Society of Washington Artists, 1937-1939 (medals), 1940-1941
Newark Museum of Art
Glasgow Museum
Salons of America
Whyte Gallery, Washington, D. C., 1939, solo
Associated American Artists, New York, 1944, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1956
Studio Gallery, solo
Washington D. C. Public Library, solo
IFA Gallery, solo

Literature
American Art: New York World’s Fair 1939;
Baigell,The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s;
Cheney, Modern Art in America; The Emergence of American Art
Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Hall, Eye on America: The United States As Seen By Her Local Artists
Heller and Williams, Painters of the American Scene
Heller and Williams, The Regionalists: Painters of the American Scene
Mallett, Mallett’s Index of Artists: International - Biographical
Marlor, Salons of America
McMahan, Artists of Washington, D .C
Opitz (ed.), Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of AM. Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
Pagano, Contemporary American Painting
Other major art references
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