Catalogue, Nicolas Roerich Exhibition

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The exhibition of the work of the famous Russian I painter, Nicolas Roerich, is an art event of the first A magnitude that presents to San Francisco one of the most interesting and fertile personalities now active in contemporary art. The collection has already been shown in the Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, and other important Eastern museums, where it has created a furore in art circles as well as among the general public.<br><br>The well-known European critic A. Koiransky says of him:<br><br>"Roerich's genius does not only lie in scenic decoration; he has done exquisite and new designs which could be used for cretonnes, and his interpretations of Russian folk-lore are quite wonderful - emotional and realistic, yet mystic, renderings of Place and Folk and traditional Russian life. In his panels entitled 'The Sons of Heaven' he showed himself capable of new and remarkable interpretations of the Old Testament, and no more wonderful artist could be found when the time comes to place in the Town Hall of Jerusalem the story of the wanderings of the Jews since 70 A. D., and their history prior to that date.<br><br>"As a painter of landscape Roerich brings something into his interpretations as new as it is old!<br><br>"He has, as an artist, many of those highly dramatic, realistic, poetic emotional attributes which we have come to know as typical of the Great Russia through the wonderful singing of Vladimir Rosing.<br><br>"Roerich has enormous power and force, yet without ever 'forcing.' I do not know of a painter who can get such effects as he gets in color. His drawing has the same remarkable power and breadth, and is intellectual as well as emotional.