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Jacob Elshin Washington Oil Painting

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Jacob Elshin Washington Oil Painting
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20" by 24" framed. Jacob Alexander Elshin (1892 - 1976) was active/lived in Washington. Jacob Elshin is known for Urban-landscape, portrait, illustrator. Painter and Illustrator who worked in oil, watercolor and tempera doing portraits, murals, port scenes and religious iconography. He was the son of a pre-revolutionary Russian Army General. He studied at the Nicholas Calvary School and the Russian Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and served in the White Russian Army. Between the time he came to the U.S., he worked as a cartoonist for the North China Daily News in Shanghai. He moved to Seattle in 1923. He was a member of Puget Sound Group of Northwest Men Painters, Washington Artists Union, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Pacific Coast Artists Association. He exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, 1937-1965 (honorable mention 1936 &1939, first prize 1935, and second prize 1937), Palace of the Legion of Honor SF, 1946, Portland Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Wash. D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. His murals are in the Seattle Post Office, the Renton Post Office, and West Seattle Senior High School