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Jacob Elshin

Jacob Alexander Elshin (1892 - 1976) was active/lived in Washington.  Jacob Elshin is known for Urban-landscape, portrait, illustrator.

The following was submitted by Jay Franklin, JFranklinFineArt:

b. 12-30-1892 St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 3-10-1976 Seattle, WA, USA

Lived at 1512 31st Ave S., Seattle, 1941

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 Hono   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1255 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Jacob Elshin


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Urban Scene, City Genre
Art Association
  • Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters
Art Teacher
  • Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Mural Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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