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1918 Kiev, Ukraine - 1985 Santa Monica, California. Known for: Tonalist landscape, still life, and portrait painter, educator.
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes,... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and inherited his love of art from his father who was an art collector and poet. When age sixteen, the young Bongart began art study at the Art Academy of Kiev with Michael Yarovoy and Peter Kotov, well-known Russian artists. Within two years, Bongart was... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and inherited his love of art from his father who was an art collector and poet. When age sixteen, the young Bongart began art study at the Art Academy of Kiev with Michael Yarovoy and Peter Kotov, well-known Russian artists. Within two years, Bongart was getting recognition including museum representation. He left Russia in the 1940s, traveled in Europe, and em... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •San Juan Capistrano Mission
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Russia
Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Artists of America
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Academy of Western Artists
- •Society of Western Artists (1939-Present)-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Russian
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League-
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Academy of Western Art-
- •Society of Western Artists (1939-Present)
Exhibition of Museum
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art