Red Sunset
Artist: Arkhyp Kuindzhi (Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi) (Ukrainian, 1841–1910)
Original Dimensions: 53" x 74"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1905–8) "This vividly colored cloudscape affirms Kuindzhi’s reputation for spectacular light effects. The placid water is likely the Dnipro River (Ukrainian; in Russian, Dniepr; in Belarusian, Dnyapro), which runs south through the three countries to the Black Sea. The artist was born along the coast in Mariupol when the Ukrainian city was part of the Russian Empire. Kuindzhi, who was descended from Pontic Greeks from Crimea, spoke Greek, Crimean Tatar, Russian, and Ukrainian, a skill that served him well as he moved around the northern Black Sea and then to St. Petersburg. There he associated with the Peredvizhniki (sometimes translated as the Wanderers), a pioneering exhibition group, and was later an influential teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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