Valery Dmitrievich Pakharkov (1930–1996) did not start his artistic career as a painter. In 1950, he graduated from the Moscow College of Architecture and Construction. After that, he started working as a senior architectural technician.
While studying at the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905, the artist began to participate in city, republican and All-Union exhibitions. In 1961, Valery Pakharkov graduated with honors.
He was accepted into the Surikov Art Institute. In 1967, Valery Pakharkov defended his diploma receiving an “excellent” mark at the Faculty of Painting in the workshop of Professor Viktor Grigorievich Tsyplakov. His graduation work was called “The Appeal of Citizen Minin”. After graduating from the Institute, Pakharkov started working at the Art School in Memory of 1905 as a teacher of drawing.
The artist’s works are kept in various Russian museums all over the country, for instance, in Providence Bay, Abakan, Murmansk, Stavropol, on Dixon Island, in the Zavolzhsk Art Gallery, the Minusinsk Museum of Local History, and in Kirillov.
Throughout his artistic career, Valery Dmitrievich Pakharkov traveled a lot around the country and visited different regions. In particular, he created artworks inspired by the Russian North and Vologda and its vicinities — the town of Totma, the villages of Yakimikha, Pogost, Korovinskoye, Levinskoye, Vishnyakovo, and Bolshoy Dvor. Together with the artists Boris Yemelyanovich Yesin and Boris Yemelyanovich Terekhov, Pakharkov organized exhibitions in Vologda and Totma.
The lyrical landscape
“Evening Is Coming” by Valery Dmitrievich Pakharkov is a picture of the past
brought back to life, which shows the peaceful life of the Vologda village with
its daily worries. A rural street, cute village houses and buildings, a river,
beyond which forests and fields spread out into the distance, — it all comes to
life. The chosen plot is simple and at the same time quite poetic. In this
landscape, one can feel life itself, as well as the heartfelt warmth, revealing
the difficult character of nature and its quiet beauty. Lonely figures of
people harmoniously fit into the environment.
