Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov, the son of a simple hauler, became one of the founding fathers of the Penza Art School; from 1908 to 1954, he taught at the Penza Art School and was its director during the Great Patriotic War.
In the Penza Regional Art Gallery named after K.A. Savitsky kept the largest collection of his works in Russia, numbering over one and a half hundred portraits, landscapes, sketches, drawings, watercolors and prints that characterize the most important stages of the master’s work. A multifaceted and original artist made a great contribution to the development of not only the drawing school and museum in Penza, but also native fine art.
