Yelena Zhukova

Elena Pavlovna Zhukova
Born	June 5, 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	October 31, 1991 Leningrad, USSR
Citizenship	USSR, Russian Federation
Education	Tavricheskaya Art School
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Elena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; June 5, 1906, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire — October 31, 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. Elena Zhukova regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her landscape paintings. Known her portraits of various periods which were painted by such known Russian artists as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945), Mikhail Nesterov (1936).

See also

• Fine Art of Leningrad
• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Sources

• Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.18.
• Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.4. Кн.1. М., Искусство, 1983. С.145.
• Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.45.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 402, 403, 445.

External links

• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.