27 1/2" x 35 1/4" oil
b. 1928
1940 - 1947 – studied art at the Moscow Secondary Art School, the class of V. Pochitalov
1949 - 1954 – a student of the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow where his teachers were Mikhail Kurilko and Viktor Tsyplakov
He began exhibiting around 1953 and participated in the 1955 “All-Union Art Exhibition” in Moscow and the 1960 “Soviet Russia” show in Moscow.
1960 - started teaching at an art studio in Pereslavl-Zalesski
Prize of Moscow’s Artists’ Union and the Moscow Committee of the VLKSM (1957)
Diploma of the Soviet of Ministries of the Russian Federation (1977)
Silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (2004)
Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2001)
Member of Artists’ Union of the USSR (1954)
Honorary Artist of the Russian Federation (1976)
Member of Russian Artists’ Union
Member of the Board of Russian Artists’ Union
He is married to well-known painter, Irina Shevandronovna. He is listed on page 329 of Matthew Bown’s, A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian Soviet Painters.
