Fedor Zagorodnyuk (1922-2017), "In Public Library", drawing, 1960

Fedor Ivanovich Zagorodnyuk was born in 1922 in the village Huncha, Vinnitsa Province in Ukraine. In 1937 he became a student of the Kherson Art School where he studied until the begin of the Second World War. He took part in the war as soldier and participated in fights by Vinnitsa, Kharkov, Rostov and Stalingrad. After a serious wound he was treated in the hospital in Tomsk, Siberia where he began to paint again. At a local exhibition of military artists he was awarded with a medal. From 1944 to 1950 he was a student of the Kiev Art Institute. Thereafter Zagorodnyuk was active in the Donbass region as director of an art studio for young artists in the town of Nadiivka. Back to Kherson in 1954, he worked a long time as collaborator of the local newspapers. He was a well-known portrait, landscape and genre painter and graphic artist, member of the Ukrainian Artist Union, with regular participation in all local, provincial and republican exhibitions. The artist died in Kherson in 2017.

Condition: In good condition, framed.

Creation Year: 1960

Measurements: UNFRAMED: 14.5cm x 20.3cm / 5.7in x 8.0in
FRAMED: 17.5cm x 22.5cm x 2.0cm / 6.9in x 8.9in

Object Type: Framed drawing

Technique: pencil on paper

Inscription: signed with monogram in Cyrillic and dated 1960

Keywords:
ZAGORODNYUK, FEDOR IVANOVICH, SOVIET SOCIALIST REALISM, UKRAINIAN; PROPAGANDA

In good condition, framed.