Andre Tutunov
1928-Present
Andre Andreevich Tutunov was born in Moscow in 1928. He first studied at the Moscow Intermediate Art School from 1940-1947 under V.V. Pochitailo. He then studied at the Surikov from 1948-1954 under professors V.G. Tsyplakov, and M.E. Kurilko. Since 1960 he has taught in the Pereslavl-Zalesski art studio in Moscow. Tutunov's early works were typified by landscape, scenes in provincial towns, and genre paintings illustrating country life. In the 1980's he turned to religious subjects. He married fellow artist I.V. Shevandronova.
Awards:(partial list)
Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2000
Honored Artist of RSFSR, 1977
Exhibitions:(partial list)
The artist began actively exhibiting in 1953.
1955, All-Union Art Exhibition, Moscow
1960, Soviet Russia exhibition, Moscow
1972, 1977, 1982, & 1987, Solo-exhibitions in Moscow
Collections:(partial list)
Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, USA
Tretyakov Gallery
Books:(partial list)
1998 Socialist Realist Painting, by Matthew Cullerne Bown
p. 437, A Fisherman and his Son, 1964, Oil on Canvas, 47 x 57 in., Private Collection