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| Nicolai Fechin Self-Portrait |
Nicolai Fechin was a Russian-American painter who lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1927 to 1933. This week, Terri and I visited the house that he built for his family and were very impressed by the adobe architecture, the hand carved woodwork and the beautiful portraits that Nicolai painted of his wife and daughter.
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| Alexandra Fechin by Nicolai Fechin |
Nicolai was born in Russia in 1881 and studied at the Kazan Art School in St. Petersburg. He married Alexandra, the daughter of the school's director in 1913. Their daughter Eya was born the following year and after the divorce of her parents in 1933, she moved with her father to New York, then Santa Monica.
Eya was a frequent model for her father and played a critical role in the preservation of the
Fechin House in Taos.
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| Eya Fechin by Nicolai Fechin |
While visiting the Fechin House, I couldn't resist capturing a
Photo Sphere of the Garden. You can take a look
here.
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| The Garden of The Fechin House in 360 |
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