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ESTABLISHED 1845

Nicolai Cikovsky

1894 – 1987

 Nicolai S. Cikovsky was born in Russia in 1894.  He studied in Russia at the Vilna Art School, the Penza Royal Art School, and Moscow High Tech Art Institute.  He immigrated to the United States in 1923, exhibiting in that year in New York City at the Charles Daniels Gallery.  In 1942, Cikovsky began spending summers on Long Island, New York, in the North Sea area, where he moved permanently in the late 1970s.  He was a member of the National Academy of Design, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers.  Cikovsky died in 1987 in Washington, DC.