Alarm. From the series "By the Native Shores"

Anatolii Petrovych Zavhorodnii was a Ukrainian artist, a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since 1967, and an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977). Born on December 28, 1929 in the city of Znamenka (now Altai Krai, Russia), in 1947 he moved to Mykolaiv and worked as an artist's apprentice in the film advertising workshop at the regional department of culture. In 1953-1954, he studied at the Mykolaiv House of Folk Art. Starting in 1954, he worked in the workshops of the art fund of the Ukrainian SSR and joined the Mykolaiv Society of Artists. In 1970, Zavhorodnii was one of the founders of the Mykolaiv regional organization of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. He worked in the fields of easel painting and graphics, creating still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and works of monumental and decorative art. Among his works are "Beykush. Autumn" (1957), "Scythian Land" (1960), "Mykolaiv - the City of Shipbuilders" (1964-1965), "Across Italy" (1984-1987), "Meeting in the Ocean" (1988), and others. He participated in many exhibitions. Zavhorodnii died on August 27, 2009 in Mykolaiv. The artist's works are kept in many museums in Ukraine and the post-Soviet space and in private collections in the countries of Asia, America, and Europe.