Stanisław Masłowski

Stanisław Masłowski (1853–1926) was a Polish painter of rural Mazovian, Ukrainian, and Crimean landscapes, especially celebrated for his watercolor and oil scenes of Polish village life, Cossack horsemen, and steppe landscapes. Trained in Warsaw, Masłowski developed a luminous plein-air manner that combined Polish Romantic-realist landscape with French open-air observation. Many of his finest works are watercolors of unusual scale and ambition.

Masłowski painted with luminous broken touch, warm earth-tone palettes, and a particular sensitivity to dust, smoke, and the pale skies of the Polish-Ukrainian plain. His watercolors are technically virtuosic.

Masłowski produced the most distinctive Polish painted record of nineteenth-century Mazovian and steppe rural life and helped establish Polish watercolor as a major medium.