(1931, Tver - 2004, Vyshny Volochok)
People's Artist of Russia. Awarded the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Chairman of the Board of the Kalinin (Tver) organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.
In 1949-1953 studied at the Moscow School of Industrial Art in memory of 1905. From 1956 - participant of all-Union and republican exhibitions.
Through all the work of VF Shumilov carried love to the land of Tver. Here, not far from Vyshny Volochyok, at the Academichesky Dacha, he created the landmark works “From the Past. Peasant Woman ”,“ Housewarming ”,“ Returning ”,“ Seeing Off ”,“ Wait for Me ”. Also a great master of the lyrical mood of the landscape and still life.
In 2006, to the 75th birthday of the author, a memorial plaque by VF was opened on the building of the Tver Union of Artists Shumilova.
Painter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). Rod in Tver, graduated from 7 classes cf. School N 6 (1945), Konakovo hood. - crafts. uch-shche (1948), Mosk. thin uch-shche "Memory of 1905" (1954), since 1954 hood. Kalin. offices hood Fund of the RSFSR and a teacher of children's art. schools (1954-57), tsp. Union of Artists of the USSR since 1957. W. works in the region. sat down. themes in genres plot-thematic. paintings, portrait, still life, landscape, included in the circle of artists "Academic dacha", before. reign of Kalin. Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1983-1988), zonal exhibition to-ta "South Nechernozemie"; tsp Audit Commission of the Union of Artists of the USSR, in 1957-83 before. thin Council Kalin. offices hood Fund of the RSFSR, sec. Board CX RSFSR since 1987. In Tver. region kart. gal. - "From the Past. Peasant Woman" (1957), "Return" (1961), "Housewarming" (1966), "Autumn. Still Life" (1968), "May 9. Brother-soldiers" (1969), "Collective Farm Market" (1974 ), "In Otradnoe" (1980) and other paintings. Lit .: Vyacheslav Fedorovich Shumilov. Catalog of the exhibition, Kalinin, 1981.