Alexander Mikhailovich Kamanin was a Soviet painter and landscape artist. He was born on March 14, 1905, in the village of Vasilevo in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. From 1927 he worked as a display artist at the club of the Red Sormovo shipbuilding plant while simultaneously attending an art studio.
From 1935 Kamanin regularly took part in various art exhibitions — zonal, republican and all-Union. He also held several solo exhibitions in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver, Kostroma and Yaroslavl. From 1945 to 1951 he studied at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov.
Among his best-known paintings are: "Gorky City in February" (1946), "Ice Drift on the Volga" (1954), "Grove in February" (1961), "A Warm Breeze" (1964), "After the Rain" and "The First Snow" (1970), "Spring Awakening", "Water Freezes" and "Winter in the Homeland of V. P. Chkalov" (1973), "Spring is Coming", "A Spring Breeze" and "By the Very Sea of Gorky" (1974). Kamanin became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1936 and headed the board of the Gorky branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR from 1946 to 1960. He was awarded the honorary titles of Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1956) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Alexander Mikhailovich Kamanin died on May 20, 1989, in Gorky and was buried at the Maryina Roshcha cemetery.
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