Northern landscape

1918 · Watercolour

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Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 13 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum

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Particulars

Accession number: P.76-1920

What it shows

Landscape Russia

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Watercolour Modernism 20th century

Sources

Victoria and Albert Museum
Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Meanwhile, in the life of Nicholas Roerich

The whole life

1916
Lung illness and a move to Finland
Because of a severe lung illness, and on the insistence of his doctors, Roerich moves with his family to the Grand Duchy of Finland near Serdobol (Vuorio) on the shore of Lake Ladoga; proximity to Petrograd lets him keep up with the affairs of the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts.
1917–1918
A closed border: the way home is cut off
After the October Revolution of 1917 and the civil war that follows, Finland's border with Soviet Russia is closed, and Roerich can no longer return to his homeland.
1918–1919
Exhibitions in Malmö, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki
Invited from Sweden, Roerich holds solo exhibitions with great success in Malmö and Stockholm (1918), then in Copenhagen and Helsinki (1919); he is elected a member of the Art Society of Finland, and Leonid Andreyev calls the world he has created “Roerich's Dominion”.
March 1920
Agni Yoga: “the system of living ethics”
In London the Roerichs found their own school of mysticism, Agni Yoga, which they describe as “the system of living ethics”. Engrossed in Theosophical mysticism, they expect a new age to dawn at any moment and wish to travel to India as soon as possible.
October 1920
An invitation from Chicago and the voyage to the USA
A successful London exhibition brings an invitation from a director of the Art Institute of Chicago, who offers to arrange a tour of Roerich's work across the United States. In autumn 1920 the Roerichs sail for America and stay there from October 1920 until May 1923.
December 1920
The first solo exhibition in New York
In December 1920 Roerich's first solo exhibition in the United States opens in New York — the start of a tour of 30 cities proposed by the director of the Art Institute of Chicago. After New York, another 28 cities see the pictures, among them Chicago, Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia and San Francisco; the exhibitions are an outstanding success.