Baku-born American artist's exhibition held in New York
By Nazrin Gadimova
A retrospective exhibition of the painter, graphic artist and poet from Baku, Nahum Tschacbasov, was presented in New York, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Friendly Association in America, Editor of the American New Frontier newspaper Nobert Evdayev said.
The exhibition was held in the National Arts Club in Manhattan in the framework of the 11th annual Our Heritage culture festival.
During his 60-year career, Nahum Tschacbasov was at the center of many important movements of the American art. About thirty works of different periods of his activity, ranging from the 1930s to the last years of the life of the artist, who died in 1982 in New York, were presented at the exhibition titled "Nahum Tschacbasov Retrospective".
Tschacbasov dominated the New York art world from the 1930s to the 1950s, displaying his intricate, symbol-laden works in the halls of art havens like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum. He painted alongside Mark Rothko in the Dissenters Ten, formed his own fine arts school in Woodstock and even threw his expertise into the teaching academy of the Art Students League.
His personal exhibitions were held in New York galleries Perls (in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948) and J. Heller (in 1950, 1951, 1953), as well as in New Orleans (in 1944), Los Angeles (in 1946) and San Francisco (in 1946). He participated in many group and regional exhibitions in the United States. In December 1944, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired his painting "The Deportation", the Whitney Museum of American Art bought the painting "The Clown" and "The Matriarch" in 1949. His personal exhibition was held at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1955, in the La Jolla Museum in California in 1965, at the Pace University in New York in 1974.
The artist is represented in the largest art collections in the USA, as well as the Museum of Tel Aviv. In 2008-2009, his works were exhibited in the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.
Tschacbasov's works are presented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, as well as in Israel and Azerbaijan. His works has been presented at the first exhibition of Azerbaijani artists in New York City, organized by the Azerbaijani Friendly Association in America in conjunction with the Community of Mountain Jews in the United States. Two works of the artist - "Motherhood" and "Abstract Composition" - were given to the museums of Baku by Nobert Evdayev from his own collection.