Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky

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Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky – a Soviet, later Russian painter and graphic artist, educator; member of the Board and Presidium of the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, and a member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and the Union of Artists of the USSR. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts and graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. He trained under N.M. Chernyshyov, S.A. Chuikov, P.D. Korin, A.M. Gritsay and V.N. Yakovlev. He taught at the Surikov Institute and the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Author of numerous narrative canvases and portrait paintings that reinterpret the traditions of Old Russian icon painting and early Renaissance art. Among his best-known works are: "By the Sea. Family" (1964, State Tretyakov Gallery, GTG), "Gymnasts of the USSR" (1964, State Russian Museum, GRM), "Under the Old Apple Tree" (1969, State Russian Museum, GRM), "Sunday" (1973, State Tretyakov Gallery, GTG), and the triptych "1937" (1986–1987, State Tretyakov Gallery, GTG).