VASILEVSKAYA Varvara Pavlovna

3 (15) 1889 (Moscow) — 18 апреля 1961 (Moscow)

the decorative Artist-прикладного art, painter, graphic artist

did in the Studio К. Ф. Юона in Moscow (1905-1908), Central Stroganov-промышленном school (1913-1915) as a volunteer.

she Lived in Moscow. Performed decorative silk scarves and shawls (hand painted, heel), leather (pads, cigarette cases), carved wooden products (boxes, decoration for furniture), ivory (medallions, combs, buckles). Worked for the Moscow Wallpaper factory; has created many compositions for fabrics and Wallpapers: "Cotton" (1951), "Peonies" (1952), "national pattern" (1953). Author of decorative panels: "Botanical garden" and "Harvest" (1939-1941; gouache).

Worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. Author of landscapes, still lifes.

From 1935 — participant of exhibitions. Member of mosskh (SSH, MOSH). Exhibited: paintings, drawings, sculpture and applied arts by artists of the Moscow oblast (1941), decorative art MSSH (1946), painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative and applied art women-художниц International women's day 8 марта (1948, 1949), the Republican exhibition of works of folk crafts and industrial art of the RSFSR (1952), artistic and decorative textiles and ceramics (1953), decorative arts (1955), Moscow painters (1961) in Moscow.

Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

Sources:
1. The Stroganov school. Imperial Central Stroganov-промышленное school. 1825-1918. Biographical dictionary. M., 2007, vol. 2. S. 87.
2. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1972, vol. 2. P. 176.