Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the

Leningrad Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg () was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called ":ru:Ленинградский Союз художников, Leningrad Union of ...

, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the

Leningrad School of Painting The Leningrad School of Painting () is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad around the reformed Imperial Academy of Arts, Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Saint Pet ...

,''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 402, 403, 445. most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s),

Yaroslav Nikolaev Yaroslav Sergeevich Nikolaev (; 30 April 1899 – 1 July 1978) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (1956), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1975), a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived ...

(1945) and

Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia. Biography He was born to a strong ...

(1936).

References

Sources

* ''Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.18. * ''Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.4. Кн.1.'' М., Искусство, 1983. С.145. * ''Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.45. 1906 births 1991 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Painters from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg) alumni Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Leningrad School artists Socialist realist artists Russian landscape painters Russian realist painters Soviet realist painters Soviet women artists 20th-century Russian women painters {{Russia-painter-stub

See also

References

Sources