(b Yegorovo, Ryazan province, 15 Aug 1862; d Moscow, 25 Sept 1930). Russian painter. He trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov, Aleksey Savrasov, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Polenov and joined the WANDERERS (Peredvizhniki) in 1889 and the Union of Russian Artists in 1903. While indebted to the realist painting of Perov, Arkhipov also gave particular attention to effects of light, rhythm and texture, even in his most didactic canvases, such as Washerwomen (late 1890s; two versions Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal. and St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.). Arkhipov found a rich and diverse source of inspiration in the Russian countryside and the peasantry; he painted peasants at work, the melting of the snow, the local church and priest, the villages of the far north and the White Sea. Works such as The Lay Brother (1891) and Northern Village (1903; both Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.) are evidence of Arkhipov’s important position in the history of late 19th-century Russian landscape painting. His concentration on plein-air painting was shared to a considerable extent by other representatives of the Union of Russian Artists such as Baksheyev, Leonard Turzhansky (1875–1945) and Sergey Vinogradov (1869–1938).

• Arkhipov, Abram (Yefimovich)
  • groups and movements
    • Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia
    • Moscow, §II, 2: Art life and organization, c 1700–1917
    • Russia, §IV, 2(iii): Painting, graphic arts and sculpture, c 1900–1916
    • Union of Russian Artists
  • pupils
    • Gerasimov, Aleksandr
    • Ioganson, Boris
    • Kravchenko, Aleksey
    • Petrov-Vodkin, Kuz’ma