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Bobri

the painter, illustrator, and poster artist Vladimir Bobritsky (or Bobri, as he came to be known).  Born in a wealthy family in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1898, he studied at the Imperial Art School until the Russian Revolution began. During the ensuing civil war, Bobritsky fought on various sides before managing to escape to Turkey in 1917 using a handmade Polish passport skillfully forged by himself. For a few years he wandered in different areas of Greece and Turkey, while supporting himself with a variety of jobs such as painting icons and signs, designing theater sets and movie posters,and playing the piano.  By the 1930s Bobri, as he had begun to sign his name, was a leading illustrator working in fashion, magazines and advertising. His accounts included Hanes, Koret and Avon; he frequently contributed to Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, McCall's and designed seven covers for The New Yorker.As a young man Bobri had learned from gypsies to play the guitar, and this passion continued all his life. In 1936 he was among the founders of The New York Society of the Classic Guitar, and served as editor or art director of its publication The Guitar Review until 1985. Other notable visual artists in the group were Gregory d'Alessio, George Giusti and Antonio Petruccelli. Vladimir Bobri lost his life in a house fire in 1986 that also sadly destroyed most of his works.

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Vladimir Bobri, Illustration for Sleepy Book, by Charlotte Zolotow, 1958