Constantine Cherkas (1919-2011)
Born Constantine Cherkashininoff in Moscow on Aug. 5, 1919, he was the only child of artist Michael Cherkas and the former Antonina Diatloff. At 14, he apprenticed with famed Russian colorist Ilya Mashkov and at 17, became one of the youngest students to attend the Moscow Academy of Arts. His professors nicknamed him the “Russian Gauguin.”
In 1941, Mr. Cherkas married art conservator Kira Krukoff. On their honeymoon in Kiev, they we (showing 500 of 4435 characters). |
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