Igor Galanin (b.1937)

Galanin started his career by illustrating children’s books and designing sets for the Moscow ballet. Desiring a career as a fine artist in the Western tradition, he fashioned a vision whose momentum carried him with his young family to Rome and his first solo exhibition in 1972. Thereafter his steps led to the United States and several small shows in  places like the Red Barn Gallery on Fisher’s Island. In 1975 his work was selected for display in the Young Artist’s exhibit at Boston’s Rose Museum. Galanin’s first New York group show soon followed at Andre Emmerich Gallery. In subsequent years the artist has maintained a longstanding relationship with both Jean Aberbach of Aberbach Gallery and Lindsay Findlay of David Findlay Gallery. Galanin has exhibited throughout the United States and occasionally in Europe. His art is included in leading private, corporate, museum, and university collections in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and South America.

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