Ancestors and Descendants

Prints and Drawings

July 27, 1944

Pavel Sokolov-Skalya
(Born Strel’nia, 1899; died Moscow, 1961)
Dem’ian Bednyi
(Born Gubovka, 1883; died Moscow, 1945)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia
Title: Ancestors and Descendants
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Original 1944
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: As in the olden times the strong blacksmith Inspired the warrior to heroic martial feats By turning with wondrous work a steel sword Into a “magic sword.” So in our days, his descendants Without tiring, day and night: Forge weapons, bone-crushing tanks For our beloved heroic warriors!
Dimensions: 203.1 × 100.3 cm (80 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.180

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