Georgii Vereiskii (Russian, 1886 - 1962), oil on canvas painting "Swamp." Signed in Cyrillic lower left. Additionally signed verso. Unframed. Note: Georgii Vereiskii is known for Charcoal portrait drawing, poster design, figures in landscape, and genre. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1962). Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR in 1946. Russian artist, master of easel graphics, representative of "quiet art". Studied in the studio of E.E. Schreider (1901-1905) and in St. Petersburg, in the New Art Workshop of M.V. Dobuzhinsky and A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1913-1916). He worked as a portrait painter, painted for the magazines "Theater and Art", "Voice of Life". He was a member of the World of Art association. Participant of exhibitions since 1904. Works by G.S. Vereiskii were exhibited at exhibitions in New York, Venice, Leipzig, Sofia, Warsaw. Personal exhibitions of G.S. Vereiskii took place in 1924, 1939, 1946, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1968. He served in the engraving department of the Hermitage (1918–1930), taught at the VKhUTEMAS (1918–1922) and other institutes. He was one of the founders of the Experimental lithographic workshop of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The artist's works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Museum of the Academy of Arts, in many other museums. Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 28 3/8 in., (54 x 72 cm.) The canvas has been folded at a certain point of time and then stretched. Multiple paint flakes. Thinning on the canvas