Artist

Ivan G. Olinsky

born Elizabethgrad, Russia 1878-died New York City 1962

Media - J0002025_1b.jpg - 89339 — Ivan G. Olinsky at work in his studio, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002025

Also known as: Ivan Olinsky
Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky
Born: Elizabethgrad, Russia
Died: New York, New York, United States
Active in: Old Lyme, Connecticut, United States

Biography: Painter and teacher. Olinsky studied with J. Alden Weir, George W. Maynard and Robert Vannoh at the National Academy of Design in New York. His figure paintings, academic in style and influenced to a degree by Impressionism, were shown frequently at the Macbeth Gallery and Grand Central Galleries in New York City.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
: Luce Artist Biography
Ivan Olinsky came to the United States from Russia when he was thirteen years old. His family settled in New York City, and several years later Ivan entered the National Academy of Design. He excelled at mural painting, and in 1900 the prominent artist John La Farge hired him as an assistant. For the next eight years Olinskys own work took a backseat to this role. As he turned thirty, he longed to establish himself as a serious artist in his own right, and he moved with his wife and daughter to Italy so that he could concentrate on his career. When he returned to New York in 1910, critics praised his new work and the distinguished Macbeth Gallery agreed to represent him. From that time on Olinsky built a successful career as a portraitist, and his idealized paintings of women were especially popular. (Cummings, Olinsky, Faces of Change: The Art of Ivan G. Olinsky, 1878-1962)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Hobson Pittman, Awakening Maltese, n.d., linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frank McClure, 1972.177

Awakening Maltese

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linoleum cut on paper

Hobson Pittman, Mansion in Dutchess County, ca. 1953-1954, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1982.109

Mansion in Dutchess County

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Dateca. 1953-1954

oil on canvas