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Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin (1881 - 1955)
Born to a poor, but remarkably talented craftsman, Nicolai Fechin would display the skill of a draftsman in most of his life’s work. By the time the boy was only thirteen he was ready to enter into formal art training, and attending the newly opened Art School of Kazan near his village in Russia.
His work soon appeared in the United States, at the International Exhibit of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. His work met with almost instant success, and garnered praise from such contemporaries as Sargent, Monet and Pisarro.
Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Fechin would relocate his family to the United States, where he soon moved from New York to the high pine forests of the Colorado Plateau. The region reminded him of his home in Russia, and Fechin was instantly attracted to the many native peoples who inhabited the region. His work began to focus on the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo peoples, and their villages and landscapes. He loved the area so much that he purchased a home and acreage that actually adjoined one reservation.
He dedicated the next few years to renovating the home, by hand, and today his house is considered itself a work of art. He and his family would live there for seven years before moving to Santa Monica, California but during that time he would successfully capture the remarkable colors and scenes of the native people, traveling as far a Mexico to sketch in charcoal, pencil and pastel the places and people of the region.
After his final relocation, Fechin took up a career teaching art in his own studio. Prior to his death in 1955, one of his largest collectors helped him stage a retrospective exhibition of his work at two museums, one in San Diego and the other in La Jolla. The events were tremendously successful, and initiated a new wave of interest in the artist.
Since his death his family has established the Fechin Institute, an educational institution which also has an extensive collection of his work.
His work soon appeared in the United States, at the International Exhibit of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. His work met with almost instant success, and garnered praise from such contemporaries as Sargent, Monet and Pisarro.
Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Fechin would relocate his family to the United States, where he soon moved from New York to the high pine forests of the Colorado Plateau. The region reminded him of his home in Russia, and Fechin was instantly attracted to the many native peoples who inhabited the region. His work began to focus on the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo peoples, and their villages and landscapes. He loved the area so much that he purchased a home and acreage that actually adjoined one reservation.
He dedicated the next few years to renovating the home, by hand, and today his house is considered itself a work of art. He and his family would live there for seven years before moving to Santa Monica, California but during that time he would successfully capture the remarkable colors and scenes of the native people, traveling as far a Mexico to sketch in charcoal, pencil and pastel the places and people of the region.
After his final relocation, Fechin took up a career teaching art in his own studio. Prior to his death in 1955, one of his largest collectors helped him stage a retrospective exhibition of his work at two museums, one in San Diego and the other in La Jolla. The events were tremendously successful, and initiated a new wave of interest in the artist.
Since his death his family has established the Fechin Institute, an educational institution which also has an extensive collection of his work.
