Frye Art Museum. Several items are held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery, the De Young Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eiteljorg Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, the Harwood Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the American Museum of Western Art, as well as in the collections of Harvard University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska and Baylor University. A number of artworks, along with his working table and easel, are on display at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Other pieces are displayed in different countries, with the largest collection at the Fechin Center in Kazan, Russia. The Russian Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery also contain several works. Many of his paintings also remain in private hands. In 1975 the artist/author Mary Balcomb wrote the book, Nicolai Fechin, now in its third printing. Other texts on the subject include Nicolai Fechin: The Art and the Life by Galina P. Tuluzakova, Fechin: The Builder by Eya Fechin, and The Genius of Nicolai Fechin: Recollections by Forrest Fenn. Fechin was also profiled in Of Time and Change by Frank Waters. His former home in Taos has been adapted as the Taos Art Museum and a house museum, and in 1979 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His daughter Eya Fechin founded the Fechin Institute in Taos in his honor in 1981. See also Portrait of Jack Hunter (Nicolai Fechin) Notes Further reading , S.R. Brennen Galleries Website Biography and examples of artwork, Biography Biography and works "Nikholas Feshin Art works" External links 1881 births 1955 deaths Artists from Kazan People from Kazansky Uyezd 20th-century Russian painters Artists from Taos, New Mexico Russian male painters Russian painters 20th-century Russian male artists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Burials at Arskoe Cemetery