Ivan Petrovich Vakurov - Merited Art Worker (1935), People's artist of the RSFSR (1956). Vakurov was born in the village of Palekh on January 21, 1885 and died there on April 20, 1968. He was brought up as an icon painter. He studied under N.M. Safonov at his Icon Workshops in Palekh (1893-1899), for whom he worked until 1915 before starting work under M.P. Parilov (1915-1919), where he did the murals at the Svyatoozersky Monastery (Vladimir Guberniya). During this period Vakurov learned how to restore icons, murals and frescoes. He worked in various churches in Novgorod, Pskov and Moscow.
Later, Vakurov worked at the Workshop of A.D. Salautin (doing the large iconostasis for the Tsaritsyno Cathedral) before moving to Moscow to the studios of Vashurov where he worked from 1919 to 1922. Vakurov learned the skill of painting paper mache items in 1923. Ivan Petrovich worked on a variety of themes: folklore, literature, history, genre scenes, hunting scenes and battles ("Battle with Dragon", "The Song of the Stormy Petrel", "Prince Gvidon", "Blind-man's-buff", "Ivanov day", "Wood-goblin", "Forest Song", "Pool", "M.Y. Lermontov", "Yaroslavna's Crying", "Ruslan and Ludmila", "Gypsy").
He joined the Artel of Ancient Art in Palekh in 1926. In addition to lacquer miniature, Vakurov did murals (the Chess room at the Young Pioneer Palace in Ivanovo, 1938), illustrated "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" by M.S. Gorky, 1936; A.S. Pushkin's "Tale of the Golden Cockerel", 1937. He did porcelain painting, book illustrations, drawings for textiles in 1920-1930. Vakurov was a teacher at the Palekh Art School and various art classes from 1928 through 1968. Began exhibiting in 1923.
Works by this renowned artist are displayed in various museums in Russia: the State Museum of Palekh Art, the Folk Art Museum (Moscow), the State Russian Museum, the All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces, the Ivanovo Region Art Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Museum of Revolution, the Nijniy Novgorod Art Museum, the Russian Museum of Ethnography, the State Historical and Art Museum-Preserve (Sergiev Posad), the All-Russia Museum of A.S. Pushkin (St. Petersburg), the Kalinin Museum, the Kiev Art Museum in Ukraine and etc..
Ivan Petrovich Vakurov's works are sited in these books:
I. Nekrasova Maria, 1994, RUSSIAN LACQUER MINIATURES. FEDOSKINO, PALEKH, KHOLUY, MSTERA, SOGLASIE, Moscow:
1. Box "In the boat" (1926, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 123, # 109.
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2. Casket "The Wood Goblin" (1928, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), page 122, # 107.
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4. Casket "The Song of Merchant Kalashnikov" (1941, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 151, # 138.
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II. Feoktistova T.Ye, 1999, PALEKH ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD MILLENIUM, OGI, Moscow:
1. Casket "The bird Hunt with Arbalest" (1924, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art).
2. Stamp box "The Deer Hunt" (1925, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art).
3. Casket "The Wood Goblin" (1928, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art).
4. Casket "Pan" (1931, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art).
5. Casket "The Sea Princess" (1934, Ivanovo Region Art Museum).
6. Casket "The song of Merchant Kalashnikov" (1941, State Museum of Palekh Art).
7. Casket "The Fox and the Crane" (1944, State Museum of Palekh Art).
8. Casket "Demons" (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art).
III. Guliayev V., 1989, RUSSIAN LACQUERED MINIATURES, AURORA ART PUBLISHERS, Leningrad:
1. Casket "The Forest Tale" (1932, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 122, # 108.
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2. Casket "The Wood Goblin" (1928, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), page 123, # 109.
IV. Pirogova L., 1994, PALEKH HISTORY AND MODERN TIME, ISKUSSTVO, ROSKNIGA, Moscow, ISBN 5-210-01301-4:
1. Stamp box "The Deer Hunt" (1925, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), page 62.
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2. Casket "The Bird Hunt with Arbalest" (1924, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), page 62.
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V. Shchanitsyn Vadim, 1994, PALEKH AND PALEKHIANS, Moscow:
1. Plate "Sin" (1930), # 13.
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VI. Nekrasova M. A., 1990, LACQUER MINIATURES FROM PALEKH, Sovietsky Khudozhhnik Publishers, Moscow, ISBN 5-269-00386-4:
1. Casket "The Wood Goblin" (1928, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), # 63.
VII. Gorbunov G.I., 1954, PALEKH, Ivanovo publishing:
1. Casket "Ruslan and Ludmila".
VIII. Zinoviev N.M., 1974, PALEKH ART, ARTIST OF USSR, Leningrad:
1. "Trees drawn in the Novgorod style of the XV century", page 145.
2. "Mountain drawn in the Novgorod style of the XV century", page 149.
3. "Palace drawn in the Novgorod style of the XV century", page 153.
4. Picture "Prince Ivan and the Fire-bird", page 169.
5. Picture "Bogatyr at the crossroads", page 170.
6. Casket "Heath cock hunting", page 176.
7. Casket "Battle with Dragon", page 179.
8. Casket "Prince Gvidon", page 197.
9. Casket "The Forest Tale" (1932, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 201.
10. Casket "Demons" (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 211.
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IX. Nekrasova M.I. PALEKH ART, 1966, SOVIET ARTIST, Moscow:
1. Powder-case "Parting" (1926, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 92.
2. Box "Spinner" (1923, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 97.
3. Casket "On the Night of Ivan Kupala" (1929, Ivanovo Region Art Museum), page 106.
4. Casket "Hunter" (1932, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 129.
5. Box "Troika" (1930, State Zagorsky Museum of History and Art), page 138.
6. Casket "Demons" (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 139.
7. Casket "The song of Merchant Kalashnikov" (1941, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 179.
8. Box "Yaroslavna's Weeping" (1941, Palekh Art School), page 203.
9. Decorative Plate "Socialist Reconstruction" (1932, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 224.
10. Plate "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 235.
11. Painting "Victory" (1945, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 239.
12. Casket "Demons" colored reproduction, (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 252.
13. Brooch "Wood-Goblin" (1935, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 258.
14. Box "Vassilissa the Fair" (1944, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 262.
15. Casket "The Forest Tale" fragment, (1932, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 263.
16. Plate "Lermontov and His Works" (1944-1946, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 268.
17. Painting "The Frincess Frog" (1933, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 279.
18. Box "The Arsy Fountain" (1933, State Museum of Palekh Art), page 283.
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