Communists — forward! For the Dnipro! For Kyiv! From an album of prints dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
- ID:
- 731
- Inventory number:
- Гр-45 КН-2196
- Type:
- Graphics
- Techniques:
- engraving
- Dimensions:
- 46x34 cm
- Author:
- Hryhorii Harkusha
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Hryhorii Trokhymovych Harkusha was a Ukrainian graphic artist. Born on September 10, 1922 in the village of Vasylkivka, now Dnipropetrovsk region, he graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1951) and completed postgraduate studies there (1955). His teachers by profession were I. Pleshchynskyi and V. Kasiian. He worked in the field of easel and book graphics and posters. A member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR (1956), Harkusha participated in republic (1949), all-Union (1955), and foreign (1951) exhibitions. His main works include "V. I. Lenin" (1953); the series "Collective Farm Village" (1957); illustrations and design for the "Shipbuilders" books by O. Syzonenko (1960); "Kannas" by V. Konvisar (1961), and others. His works are kept in Ukrainian museums. Harkusha lived and worked in the city of Kyiv and died on January 31, 1993.
- Date of creation:
- 1978
- Preservation:
- complete preservation
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Purchased under invoice No. 8593 dated 12/22/1978. Act No. 2282 dated 09/27/1979.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 18.07.1980