There is covered the development of fine arts in Altai in the second half of the 1920s. There is introduced the information about the Barnaul period of life of the Czech artist V.V. Panovsky who came into Russia invited by A.V. Lunacharsky and who became the head of the Barnaul branch of the all-Siberian community of artists “New Siberia” and the organizer of the artistic school in Barnaul.