Michael Chepourkoff
Subtitle: the artist, the man, his life, his art
By: Vivian Chepourkoff Hayes
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Biography; Artists
Description: "Michael Chepourkoff was born in Russia in 1899, emigrated to the United States in 1923, and lived in San Francisco most of his life until his death in 1955.  He was a sculptor ahead of his time, a painter who created a scandal with one of his paintings, a terrible husband, and a loving father"--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 255)
Table of contents: title: The beginning: life in Russia; title: Emigrate from China, immigrate to San Francisco; title: A rest from war; title: The Berkeley years; title: Nineteen twenty-nine to nineteen thirty-three; title: "Flame Flower"; title: Mike's San Francisco Art World of the 1930s; title: Scandal: "The Blessed and the Wretched"; title: "He was impossible to live with; title: Michael Chepourkoff, the artist; title: Forgotten names: WPA artists; title: They mystery marrriage: finding Helen and her possible child; title: Concentration Camp; title: Life with Virginia; title: Mike as a father; title: The later years; title: The final act; title: Epilogue.