U.S. Museums with Russian Art 

Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) Costume department includes the finest collection of Russian garments and textiles outside Russia. brooklynmuseum.org

Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, WI) Roughly 90 Socialist Realist paintings and about 20 icons, donated by Joseph E. Davies, former US ambassador to the USSR and an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin. chazen.wisc.edu

Hillwood Museum and Gardens (Wash., D.C.), the former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, has one of the most comprehensive collections of 18th and 19th century Russian Imperial art outside of Russia. hillwoodmuseum.org

Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) has one of the largest groupings of Soviet posters outside Russia, along with a collection of Russian art books, many collected in the years following the October Revolution. hoover.org

Kolodzei Art Foundation (Highland Park, NJ) holds some 7000 works by 300 artists, chronicling four decades of nonconformist art. While not a museum, the Foundation organizes non-profit exhibitions. kolodzeiart.org

L.A. County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) has in its collection paintings and works in other media by major avant-garde figures like Marc Chagall, Mikhail Larionov, and Aleksandr Rodchenko. lacma.org

Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) owns over 1000 Russian avant-garde illustrated books in addition to more than 400 avant-garde works in other media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and film. moma.org

Nasher Museum of Fine Art (Durham, NC) has holdings particularly rich in works by second-generation nonconformist artists from the Brezhnev era into the post-Soviet period. nasher.duke.edu

New York Public Library (New York, NY) houses thousands of original photographs and illustrated and plate books, along with a major collection of early Soviet posters. nypl.org

Roerich Museum (New York, NY) features a sizable collection of paintings, archival materials, and artifacts by and related to Nicholas Roerich. roerich.org

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA) houses the largest public collection of Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs outside Russia. vmfa.state.va.us

Wolfsonian-Florida Intl. Univ. (Miami Beach, FL) has a diverse collection of decorative and graphic art from imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, including political posters, children’s books, books and magazines. wolfsonian.org

Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ) houses the Dodge Collection, the world’s largest collection of Soviet nonconformist art, and the Riabov Collection, over 1,100 works from the 14th-20th centuries, including icons, lubki, and costume and set designs. zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu