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Alexis Mathew Podchernikoff
(1886-1933)
Alexis Mathew Podchernikoff was born in Vladimir, Russia on February 26, 1886 into a family of artists. Podchernikoff first studied art with his grandfather Dmitri Zolotarieff and later with Ilya Repin and Verestchagin. In Moscow, he was awarded a gold medal and his work 'My Beloved Russian Woods' was purchased by the Royal Art Commission. After the Russo-Japanese War, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1903 and settled in San Francisco. In 1913, an art dealer from Santa Barbara convinced Podchernikoff to move there. A painting of his Santa Barbara studio appeared on the front cover of Literary Digest, March 10, 1928. Although he spent the last twenty years of his life in Southern California, he returned often to San Francisco to paint scenes of Marin and the northern coast. He is well known in California for his landscapes done in the manner of Corot. His last years were spent in Pasadena where he died on October 31, 1933 of tuberculosis.
Exhibited: California Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915.
Works Held: Oakland Museum; Royal Art Commission, Moscow; Orange County Museum, California.
Source:
The Podchernikoff family; CA&A.
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