Anatoly Kaplan

Acquired from the artist's wife by the present owner

Sewickely, Pennsylvania, International Images, Ltd., Anatoli Kaplan: Contemporary Artist from the USSR, 1990
Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990, 1990
North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Quest for Self-Expression: Painting Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990, 1990
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, Quest for Self-Expression: Painting Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990, 1990

Alechem, Scholem; et.al., Des Rebben Pfeifenrohor: Humoristische Erzahlungen aus dem Jiddischen, Berlin, p. 45
International Images, Ltd., Anatoli Kaplan: A Contemporary Leningrad Artist, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, 1990
Columbus Museum of Art, The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990, Columbus, 1990, p. 104

Anatoly Kaplan spent his childhood in the Belorussian town of Rogachev, where a Jewish population lived for years, oppressed and deprived of its rights. Kaplan preserved the world of his childhood in his works, showing the traditions of the Jewish people. In works like The Red Bedroom (1978), he portrayed a bygone era—the hard but colorful everyday life of pre-Revolutionary Jewish boroughs—in a style closely connected with the old traditions of folk artistic culture.

Ironically, in spite of his talent and the public admiration for his work, Kaplan never lived to see even a single one-man exhibition of his work in his own country.