The “Moscow morning” painting, which is in the collection of the Valuy Museum of History and Art, was painted by People’s Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR and the Russian Federation Efrem Zver’kov.
The artist was born in the Tver region in 1921. Later, the family moved to Tver, where the aspiring artist began to take lessons from Ilya Repin’s student, Nikolai Borisov. In 1939, Zver’kov was accepted to the Foundation Department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Leningrad. Then the Great Patriotic War began, and the young artist went to the front.
Upon demobilization in the winter of 1945, Efrem Zver’kov studied painting in Moscow in the Studio of Academician Boris Ioganson. Later, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Surikov Art Institute.
Efrem Zver’kov’s work is a bright page of Russian landscape painting of the second half of the twentieth century. You can see his desire for links and harmony between human life and nature in the artist’s works.
Efrem Zver’kov painted the “Moscow morning” canvas in 1962. The artist’s painting breathes freshness and coolness. He depicted the morning fog as a light transparent haze that lay on the fields and meadows of a village near Moscow. An elderly woman is sitting on the ground, nursing a baby in a hand-made wooden crib with touching care and love. On the left side of the picture, teenage girls are walking along the path with rakes on their shoulders in rustic clothes: print dresses, canvas slippers on their bare feet, white headscarves on their heads. You can see rows of freshly cut grass from the evening in the background, and hanging on a wooden fence, there are clay crinkles and a milk can.
The artist was born in the Tver region in 1921. Later, the family moved to Tver, where the aspiring artist began to take lessons from Ilya Repin’s student, Nikolai Borisov. In 1939, Zver’kov was accepted to the Foundation Department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Leningrad. Then the Great Patriotic War began, and the young artist went to the front.
Upon demobilization in the winter of 1945, Efrem Zver’kov studied painting in Moscow in the Studio of Academician Boris Ioganson. Later, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Surikov Art Institute.
Efrem Zver’kov’s work is a bright page of Russian landscape painting of the second half of the twentieth century. You can see his desire for links and harmony between human life and nature in the artist’s works.
The master’s paintings are represented in the most extensive collections in Russia: the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, many Russian art museums, public and private collections in France, Bulgaria, Italy, Belgium, the United States, Japan, China, and other countries. Zverkov’s work is devoted to monographs, albums, more than 200 publications in various editions, and several documentaries. In 2001, a new star in the Aquarius constellation was named after Efrem Zver’kov.
Efrem Zver’kov painted the “Moscow morning” canvas in 1962. The artist’s painting breathes freshness and coolness. He depicted the morning fog as a light transparent haze that lay on the fields and meadows of a village near Moscow. An elderly woman is sitting on the ground, nursing a baby in a hand-made wooden crib with touching care and love. On the left side of the picture, teenage girls are walking along the path with rakes on their shoulders in rustic clothes: print dresses, canvas slippers on their bare feet, white headscarves on their heads. You can see rows of freshly cut grass from the evening in the background, and hanging on a wooden fence, there are clay crinkles and a milk can.
