Artist Monograph

Liisa Roberts, American

American and Finnish, born France 1969

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Large (1–3 m)	12	100%

Range: 166.7 cm → 166.7 cm (largest side)

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 13 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
High-relief # 1: Doctors. A mother with a child patient (Nadiya A. Shirinskaya, b. 1924 and Alisa A. Ivanova, b. 1954), a doctor (Nina P. Povarushkina, b. 1926), and a pediatric nurse (Nadezhda M. Smolina, b.1920) Photograph Acc. 475.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 2: Collective farmers. A dairymaid (Taisiya P. Zhunina, b. 1931) a henwife and a horsegroom Photograph Acc. 476.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 3: Shipbuilders. Two welders, men (Mikhail V. Karpeev, b. 1928) and a draughtswoman (Galina M. Vorontsova, b. 1933) Photograph Acc. 477.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 4: Art Workers. An architect (Vladimir V. Popov, b. 1928), a sculptor (Grigoriy D. Yastrebenetskiy, b. 1923), and a painter (Elena M. Kostenko, b. 1926) Photograph Acc. 478.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 5: Foundry Workers. Three foundry workers, two men and a woman (Nina V. Smolina, b. 1929) Photograph Acc. 479.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 6: Metro Builders. Three tunnel diggers, men (Aleksandr V. Scheglov, b. 1929; Nikolay V. Ivanov, b. 1932) Photograph Acc. 480.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 7: Textile workers. Two weavers, women (Vera D. Grigoryeva, b. 1936) and a reeler, a woman Photograph Acc. 481.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 8: Soviet soldiers. a. Three soldiers (Boris G. Kiryanov, b. 1920; Aleksandr N. Toptygin, b. 1923; Mikhail P. Zorin, b.1923) and a young girl b. Three soldiers, men (Mikhail P. Zorin, b. 1923; Aleksandr N. Toptygin, b. 1923) and a young girl (Marina N. Kopotko, b. 1951) Photograph Acc. 482.2017.a-b	2015	Chromogenic color prints	Each 49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief # 9: Students. Two elementary school students (Natalya P. Vereschagina, b. 1947; Larisa P. Perlova, b. 1945) a secondary school student (Liliya P. Teterina, b. 1936) and a teacher (Lyutsiya A. Bartashevich, b. 1931) Photograph Acc. 483.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 5/8 × 65 5/8" (126 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief #10: Sailors. A sailor (Anatoliy K. Popkov, b. 1930) and two navy divers, men Photograph Acc. 484.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 5/8 × 65 5/8" (126 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief #11: Builders. A supervisor (Lev M. Kaplan, b. 1929) and two construction site workers (Tatyana M. Zakharova, b. 1931; Lev N. Smorgon, b. 1929) Photograph Acc. 485.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
High-relief #12: Plant Breeders. Three plant breeders, two women and a man. At the time of the Leningrad Siege all of the plant breeders of the Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry starved to death guarding stocks of rice, wheat, corn, beans and potatoes for future generations. The few plant breeders working at the time that the Narvskaya metro station reliefs were sculpted, passed away not long before the time of these photographs taken at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts. Photograph Acc. 486.2017	2015	Chromogenic print	49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell
Petersburg Underground Photograph Acc. 475-486.2017	2015	Thirteen chromogenic prints	Each 49 7/8 × 65 5/8" (126.7 × 166.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Margaret Sundell