Mid 20th Century "Yosemite Park in Winter" Landscape Oil Painting by Vladimir Shkurkin

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Unique Yosemite Park Valley in winter mountain and lake scene by listed California artist Vladimir Shkurkin (American, 1900-1990). Circa 1950's. … more Unique Yosemite Park Valley in winter mountain and lake scene by listed California artist Vladimir Shkurkin (American, 1900-1990). Circa 1950's. Signed "V. Shkurkin" lower left. Unframed. Image, 24"H x 30"W.

Shkurkin was born in northern China and educated in a military school in Siberia with art studies at the School of Fine Art in Kiev (1917-22). Upon immigrating to America in 1925, he moved to Seattle where he painted murals in many public buildings. In 1938 he arrived in San Francisco and did murals in the San Francisco Pavilion and Brazilian Pavilion for the Golden Gate International Exposition. His work includes about 3,000 paintings. less