Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993)

Nikolai Timkov's paintings are highly sought afterand are proudly displayed
in all major Russian museums. Timkov is also a favorite artist of private collectors throughout the world for his outstanding impressionistic skills in capturing the unique beauty of the Russian landscape and holds an important role in the history of russian impressionism.
 
 
 
 

Public Collections:
 

  • Abramtsevo: State Museum of History, Arts, and Literature. 
  • Beloretsk: Beloretsk Picture Gallery. 
  • Berdiansk: I.I. Brodsky Art Museum. 
  • Briansk: Art Museum of the Briansk Region. 
  • Vladimir: Vladimir-Suzdal State Museum of History and Architecture. 
  • Vyshnyi Volochok: Local branch of the Kalinin State Museum of History and Architecture. 
  • Gorlovka (Donetsk region): Gorlovka State Museum. 
  • Gorokhovets (Donetsk region): Gorlovka State Museum. 
  • Gorokhovets (Vladymir region): Museum of Local Lore, History and Economy. 
  • Izhevsk: Udmurtia Art Museum. 
  • Ioshkor-Ola: Mari Exhibition Hall. 
  • Kazan: Tataria Art Museum. 
  • Kalinin: Kalinin Picture Gallery. 
  • Comsomolsk-on-Amur: Museum of Soviet Arts. 
  • Kurgan: Kurgan Art Museum. 
  • Konstantinnivsk (Rostov region): City Art Museum. 
  • Leningrad (St. Petersburg): State Museum of the History of Leningrad. 
  • State Russian Museum. 
  • Central Naval Museum. 
  • Popov’s Central Museum of Communications. 
  • Moscow: Central Army Museum. 
  • Novgorod: Novgorod State Museum of History, Architecture and Art. 
  • Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region): Novokuznetsk Museum of Soviet Art. 
  • Omsk: Museum of Arts. 
  • Oryol: State Picture Gallery. 
  • Orenburg: Museum of Arts. 
  • Rostov-on-Don: Museum of Arts Museum of Local Lore, History and Economy. 
  • Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk): Museum of Arts. 
  • Cheboksary: Chuvashi State Art Gallery. 
  • Shadrinsk (Kurgan region): Museum of Local Lore, History and
  • Economy and various picture galleries and other institutions. 
  • Altai region: Pavlovsk Picture Gallery. 
  • Moscow: Republic Center for Art Exhibitions. 
  • Moscow region: Sovkhoz Voronovo Art Gallery. 
  • Pskov region: (Novorzhev area): Vekhnyanskaya Art Gallery. 
  • Tomsk: Experimental and Production Holding. 

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Important Exhibitions by Dates (partial list only):
     
  • All-Union Exhibition Heroic Front and Home Front, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, 1943. 
  • Exhibition of young artists, dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of  the Lenin Comsomol, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. 
  • First Exhibition of the Leningrad Frontline Artists, Frunze House of the Red Army, Moscow, 1943. 
  • Second Exhibition of the Leningrad Frontline Artists, State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1944. 
  • Third Exhibition of the Leningrad Frontline Artists, Academy of Arts, Leningrad, 1945. 
  • First One-Man Exhibition of Timkov’s works, Russian Federation of Artists, Leningrad Branch, 1947. 
  • Traveling Exhibition of Leningrad Artists, House of Arts Named for K. S. Stanislavsky, Leningrad, 1948. 
  • Retrospective Exhibition of paintings, graphics and sculpture, 1947-48, Leningrad, 1949. 
  • Exhibition of works by Leningrad Artists, State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1950. 
  • Exhibition of works by Leningrad Artists, State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1951. 
  • All-Union Exhibition of Arts, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, 1952. 
  • Second All-Union Exhibition of Seascape Painters, Central House of the Soviet Army, Moscow, 1952. 
  • Second One-Man Exhibition of Timkov’s works, Russian Federation of Artists, Leningrad , 1957. 
  • Exhibition of paintings, sculpture and graphics dedicated to First All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists, USSR Union of Artists, Moscow. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • All-Union Exhibition dedicated to the same anniversary, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Traveling Exhibition Petersburg-Leningrad in Prints and Lithographs by Russian and Soviet Artists from the Hermitage Collections, Novgorod, Riga and Tallinn. 
  • Traveling One-Man Exhibition of Timkov’s works from Leningrad and Rostovon-Don, 1958. 
  • Exhibition of paintings Forty Years of the Soviet Military Forces, USSR Academy of Arts, Moscow. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad Artists, Research Museum of the USSR Academy of Arts, Leningrad, 1960. 
  • Republic Exhibition of Arts Soviet Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • All-Union Exhibiton of Arts dedicated to the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1961. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • Regional Exhibition, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of Works by N. Timkov and S. Neverstein, Leningrad. 
  • Third One-Man Show, 1964. Traveling Exhibition to Moscow, Taroslavl, Krasnodor, Stravropol, Kislovodsk and Rostov-on-Don. 
  • Leningrad During the Second World War, Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in Finland and Turkey. 
  • Second Republic exhibition of arts Soviet Russia, Central  Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Third Republic exhibition of arts Soviet Russia, dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • All-Union exhibition dedicated to above anniversary, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Fourth Republic exhibition of arts Soviet Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1970. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to Vladimir I. Lenin, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to 25th anniversary of  victory in the Second World War, Leningrad Organization of the
  • Russian Federation of Artists, Leningrad, 1972. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists Our Contemporaries, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of the Russian Federation of artists Around the Native Land, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Exhibition of the Russian Federation of artists, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1974. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists Around the Native Country, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • Fifth Republic-wide exhibition Soviet Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1975. 
  • Regional Exhibition of Leningrad artists Our Contemporaries, State Russian Museum, Leningrad. 
  • All-Union Exhibition of arts Glory to Labor, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1976. 
  • One-Man Exhibition of Timkov’s works, Leningrad Branch of the  Russian Federation of Artists, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition The Arts of Leningrad, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Republic-wide exhibition of Russian Federation artists dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1977. 
  • Exhibiton On Lenin’s Road dedicated to the October Revolution, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Exhibition of the Russian Federation of artists Art Belongs to the People, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • All-Union art exhibiton The Blue Roads of Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1979. 
  • All-Union art exhibiton of Leningrad artists dedicated to 110th anniversary of V. I. Lenin, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1980.
  • Sixth Republic-wide exhibition Soviet Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow. 
  • Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad in the works of Soviet and Russian artists, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • All Russian art exhibition Around the Native Country, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1981. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists Our Contemporaries, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • One-Man Exhibition of Timkov’s works, USSR Union of Artists, Yuri A. Gagarin Air Force Academy, Star City, Moscow, 1982. 
  • Exhibition dedicated to 50th anniversary of the Leningrad branch of the Russian Federation Union of Artists, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition A Land of Inspirations, Kalinin. 
  • Exhibition The Blue Roads of Russia, Central Exposition Hall, Moscow, 1983. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists In the Time of Courage, State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1984. 
  • Exhibition, The Battle for Leningrad, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to the epic battle for Leningrad, Leningrad branch of the Russian Federation Union of Artists, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition of Leningrad artists, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad.
  • Exhibition 60 Years with Lenin’s Name, Museum of Leningrad History, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition Our Leningrad, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Academy Dacha, Kalinin. 
  • Exhibition 40 Years of Great Victory, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad, 1985. 
  • Regional exhibition, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad. 
  • Exhibition Our Contemporaries, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad, 1986. 
  • Exhibition Leningrad’s Artists for the 70th Anniversary of the Great October, Central Exposition Hall, Leningrad, 1987. 
  • Sixth one-man exhibition, 1993 Union of Artists, Saint Petersburg.
  • One-man exhibition, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1998.

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Books: (available at your Timkov art dealers)
 
 


 

The Seasons of Timkov
Master Russian Impressionist© 
Text by Dr. Alexander D. Borovsky and
Dr. Alexander M. Shedrinsky, 1998
 
 
 


 

Akademichka
The Academic Dacha Through the Eyes of Nikolai Timkov© 
Text by Dr. Albert Kostenevich and
Alexander Borovsky, 1999 
 
 
 


 

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov
Master Russian Impressionist, 2000