biografia di Andrey AVINOFF (1884-c.1948)

Birth place: Tulchin, Russia

Death place: New York

Addresses: Locust Valley, NY

Profession: Painter, illustrator, museum director, lecturer

Studied: Univ. Moscow; Univ. Pittsburgh.

Exhibited: AWCS, 1922-46; AFA; England.

Member: Pittsburgh AA; AWCS, 1922-46; AWCS.

Work: priv. colls.

Comments: A member of Russia's most distinguished families, he fled his native land in 1917, leaving behind his most valuable collection of 80,000 Asian and Arctic butterflies, now in the Academy of Science in Leningrad. Illus., Tibetan drawings, A Modern Magic Carpet," Century Magazine, 1922; covers for Asia magazine; Wildflowers of Western Pennsylvania, 1953. Des., Commons Room, Nationality rooms, Univ. Pittsburgh. Lectures: Nature in Art; Imagery in Art; Russian, Persian, Flemish and Dutch art. Position: dir. emeritus, Carnegie Inst., Dept. FA; asst. prof. FA, Univ. Pittsburgh.

Sources: WW47; Chew, ed., Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters, 14. "