Occupation: Painter Media: Oil, Soft Pastel. Born Dnepropretrovsk, Ukraine, July 23, 1935; United States citizen.
Education Art Coll, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, BA, 50-55. Commerce & Indust Arts Inst, Leningrad, 55-56. Kharkov Inst Fine Arts, Ukraine, MFA, 56-62.
Teaching Positions Instr, workshops.
Commissioned Works Soldiers Dream (oil), 67, Songs of the Civil War, 69, Ministry Cult Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, Russia; New England (oil), Delta Airlines, 87; Portrait of John Adams (oil), John Adams Venture Capital, Boston, 89.
Public Works Paintings approved, selected & purchased by the govts & comts of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and/or Ukraine for public display at different mus & galleries, locations unknown.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Creative Art Resource & Design, Birmingham, Michigan, 98 & Marin Price Galleries, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 98, Marin-Price Gallerie, 2000; Group exhibs, Artist Mag Nat Competition, 95 & 96; 24th Ann Open Exhib-Pastel Only, Pastel Soc America, New York, 96; 4th Biennial Nat Exhib Pastels, Pastel Soc N Florida, 96; Pastels USA, Pastel Soc W Coast, Sacramento, California, 96; Madison Ave Art Gallery, 96; Marin-Price Galleries, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 98; Gallery 1000, Carmel, California, 2001.
Bibliography Carole Katchen (author), 200 Great Painting Ideas for Artists, 97 & Rachel Rubin Wolf (editor), The Best of Portrait Painting, N Light Bks; Portrait Inspirations, 97 & Landscape Inspirations, 97, Rockport Publ; The Best of Pastel, Quarry Bks; Anatoly Dverin (author), American Impressionist (bk), Book Press, 2006.
Publications Illusr, When Animals Used to Speak, Childrens Bks, Kiev, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 67; contributor, Ron Lister, Drawing with Pastel, Prentice-Hall Inc, 82; Designing Greeting Cards & Paper Products, by Ron Lister, Prentice-Hall Inc, 84; illustrator, Spirit of the Hills, Dan O'Brien (author), Pocket Bks, 88; Getting a feel for portraits, Artists Mag, 10/98; Kenneth M Bailey (author), The Power of Personality, America Artist Mag, 9/2000.
Honors and Awards Canson Award of Excellence, 92; Artist Mag Award, Nat Exhib Pastel, Pastel Soc N Florida, 94; Nat Exh Pastel Only, Klimberger Memorial Award, 94; Joseph V Giffuni Member Award, Best in Show, 96; Canson Award, Best in Show, 98 & 2000.
Memberships Pastel Soc America; Oil Painters America; Knickerbocker Artists; Cassat Pastel Soc; Pastel Soc of N Florida.
Areas of Interest Classical, Traveling, Music.
Dealers Bayview Gallery 33 Bayview St Camden Maine 04843; Gallery 1000 Ocean Ave & Dolores St Carmel-By-The-Sea CA 93921; Boston Art Massachusetts; Gallery at Lagerfield New Hampshire; Gallery on the Green One The Green Woodstock VT 05091; Horizon Gallery 165 N Center St Jackson WY 83001; Cherchill Gallery 6 Inn St Newburyport MA 01950; Cavalier Gallery 34 Main St Nantucket MA 02554; Wildhorse Gallery Steam Boat Springs CO; Royal Gallery Providence Rhode Island; Brendon Michael Fine Art Santa Fe NM.
