Richard Aste blogs about the Brooklyn Museum's installation of Russian paintings from their collection, titled Russian Modern.

Aste writes that the long term installation "will feature thirteen paintings… spanning one hundred years of modern Russian art history…The paintings range in scale and subject-matter from small cabinet pictures of Russian peasant life to large-scale pacifist paintings of imperial Russian warfare, from abstracted landscapes of Crimea and the Ukraine to classicizing, 'return to order' portraits from the years following the first World War."

The exhibition mixes Modernist icons, Soutine, Max Weber, and Kandinsky, with lesser known artists including Vasily Vereshchagin, Boris Anisfeld, Abraham Manievich, Aleksandr Yakovlev, and Boris Grigoriev.