Nicholas Roerich Museum

The Nicholas Roerich Museum is a museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to the works of Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), a Russian-born cosmopolitan artist.

His early accomplishments include devising with Igor Stravinsky the libretto, and creating the sets and costumes for the “Rite of Spring” (1913).

He spent the last 20 years of his life in Kullu valley in the Western Himalayas, and is famous for his many landscapes of the Himalayas.^[1]

Housed in a brownstone at 319 West 107th Street, the museum was originally located in the nearby Master Apartments at 103rd Street and Riverside Drive, which were built for Nicholas Roerich and Helena Roerich in 1929.^[2]^[3]

The museum includes approximately 150 of Roerich's works as well as a collection of archival materials.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

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^ Seth Kugel (April 16, 2006). "Specialty Museums: Finding Art, Not Crowds, in New York". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
^ Christopher Gray (January 29, 1995). "Streetscapes/The Master Apartments; A Restoration for the Home of a Russian Philosopher". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
^ Strausbaugh, John (November 12, 2014). "A Private Upper West Side Museum Salutes a (Forgotten) Russian Superstar". Observer. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
^ "Nicholas Roerich Museum". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
^ "What I've learned: Izabela Grocholski | Christie's". Christie's. February 26, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
^ Squires, Emily; Len Belzer (2000). Spiritual Places. Cosimo, Inc. p. 86. ISBN 1931044031.
^ Karlowich, Robert A. (1990). A Guide to Scholarly Resources on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the New York Metropolitan Area. M.E. Sharpe. p. 206. ISBN 0873326199.

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