Andrei Kushnir

Andrei Kushnir's landscape paintings reflect his love of the outdoors. He is known as a "New Naturalist" and paints directly from nature, which inspires him to capture the poetic feeling of a place. His works are in the permanent collections of the U.S. Coast Guard, D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland University College, Virginia Historical Society, Museum of Florida's Art and Culture, and University Club, Washington, DC. He is the only living artist accorded a solo exhibition by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA. The artist is an elected signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, an elected member of the Salmagundi Club (NYC) and the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, and an associate member of Oil Painters of America. He is the founder of the Potomac River School, a unique group of landscape painters in the Potomac River Basin. Andrei Kushnir has spent over 10 years painting over 250 landscape images from diverse locations throughout the Shenandoah Valley, the only artist to undertake a project of such a scope of the historic Valley.