Abram Arkhipov

The artist Abram Yefimovich Arkhipov is a representative of the poetic direction in the Russian peasant genre. Almost all of his works are devoted to the peasant theme and the Russian village. And that explains his biography - a biography of a native of a poor peasant family from Ryazan province, a man who was akin to the village.
Abram Arkhipov is a representative of the younger generation of Peredvizhniki (Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions) or so-called late Peredvizhniki.
His name gained fame in Russia in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Arkhipov’s remarkable work “Elderly Peasant in Blue Shirt,” presented at Yerevan Museum of Russian Art along with the landscape “Lake” (1913) and the large canvas “Young Peasant Woman (Woman at the Window)” of the 1920s, dates back to this period. This canvas is a vivid example of the decorative impressionism to which the younger Peredvizhniki arrived in the pre-revolutionary years.
A. Ye. Arkhipov at the Museum of Russian Art (Prof. A. Abrahamyan’s collection):
“Elderly Peasant in Blue Shirt”, The 1890-s
“Lake”, 1913
“Young Peasant Woman (Woman at the Window)”, The 1920-s