Anatoly
Fedorovich Gurkin

B. 13.03.1935, village of Belye Berega (Bryansk region). In Sergiev Posad since 1970. He studied at the Odessa art College (1954), Krasnoselsky school of art processing of metals (Krasnoe Selo, Kostroma region, 1958-63, the diploma with distinction – decorative vase with engraving on different types of techniques); MVHPU (former Stroganov) – 1963-69, professors V. A. Bogdanov, D. K. Tegin, A. V. Wrobel, B. N. Written by, thesis – "Color scheme and the pictogram of the production workshops of the Volga automobile plant". G. V. Kryukov, Y. K. Semenov.

Lecturer, SHPT (1970-85), artist SHPM (1985-95). Member of the artists Union (1990).

Performed works: "Warm evening" (oil on canvas, 1967), "still life" (K., M., 1970), a series of sketches "Zagorsk and the surrounding area" (K., M., 1971-76), "Laurel", "Lady in red" (both 1972), "Self", "sand pit" (both from the K., tempera, 1974), "Nude" (watercolor, 1975), "In the shop" (oil on canvas, 1977), etchings "Cross" (1979), "Evening. The suburb of Zagorsk", "Dawn", "Blue evening. Frost" (1986), landscapes (H., M.): "Street in Vyaz'ma", "Church of the Annunciation. Moore", "Street of peace in Karachi" "Windy day", "Waiting" (1988-91), the "Holy gates of the Lavra" (1999), "the source" (hardboard, M., 2002).

Participant of exhibitions (since 1950), including: all-Union exhibitions: "60 heroic years" (M., 1978), "defending the borders of our Motherland" (Moscow, 1978), "Physical culture and sport in fine art" (Moscow, 1979), "Blue roads of the Motherland" (Moscow, 1979), Republican exhibition "Monuments of culture" (Moscow, 1980), 8-th Republican exhibition of works of artists of the Russian Federation (Moscow, 1982), "Moscow suburbs" (Moscow; the first in 1980; second – 1984; the third in 1990), exhibition of works of artists of Sergiev Posad (Saldus, Latvia, 2000), "Autumn salon" (Sergiev Posad, 2002).

Exhibition of works by G. held: 1950 (the settlement Belye Berega, Bryansk region), 1956 (Kalinin, awarded the nominal watch of the Commander of the Moscow military district, Marshal of the Soviet Union K. S. Moskalenko), 2004 (Sergiev Posad).

Works by G. stored in the Kostroma regional art Museum, Serpukhov art Museum (Moscow region), Bryansk art gallery, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

CATALOGUES: Exhibition of works of artists of Zagorsk: To-d / Authors-comp. V. Desyatnikov, E. Ermolaev. – M., 1975 (without pages). Third zonal art exhibition "Moscow":-G. – M., 1990. – P. 34. – Autumn salon-2002: the year of paintings, drawings and sculpture of the V exhibition. – Sergiev Posad, 2002. – S. 8.

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