Shevchenko Alexander

Shevchenko, Alexander Vasilyevich (1883, Kharkov — 1948, Moscow)
Painter, teacher. Studied at the Stroganov Central School of Technical Drawing in Moscow (1898– 1905, 1906–1908), at Eugène Carrire’s studio and the Académie Julian in Paris (1905–1906) and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1908–1910). Member of Makovets (1922, chairman) and the Shop Floor of Artists (1926). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1903) including Salon des Indépendants in Paris (1906), Moscow Fellowship of Artists (1908, 1909), Moscow Salon (1911, 1913), Union of Youth (1912, 1912–1913), Donkey’s Tail (1912), Target (1913), the World of Art (1913, 1917, 1921), No. 4: Futurists, Rayists, Primitives (1914). Taught at the Central School of Art and Industry and the Moscow Textile Institute (1940–1942).