Vladimir Yurkin
1924 - 1998
Vladimir was born in Moscow.
He studied at the Surikov State Art Institute in Moscow, emphasizing portrait painting. Following graduation, Vladimir created genre pictures in aesthetics of soviet life of the 1950s.
In the 1960's, Vladimir was principally involved with book illustrations. He also had several commissions to produce fairy tale panoramas on the walls of children's sanatoreums in and around Moscow.