Martynov, Anatolii Vladimirovich

Anatolii Vladimirovich Martynov was a Russian and Soviet graphic artist and painter. In 1890, Martynov graduated from the Poltava Cadet Corps. He went on to study at the Kazan Military School (1893-1894), and thereafter, he took classes at the Aleksandr Makovskii School of Painting and Drawing in St. Petersburg (1903). Martynov continued at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts (1906-1907) where he was under the tutelage of noted artists Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus, Kyriak Kostiantinovch Kostandi, and Nikolai Semeonovich Samokish.

During the First World War, the artist served in the Imperial Army. Following the Russian Revolution, he moved to the Ukrainian SSR. In 1945, Martynov resided on the Crimean Peninsula.

Anatolii Martynov’s forte was landscape painting. He also elaborated battle paintings and murals, and worked in commercial design. Some of his noted paintings include, "Lenin's Locations [in] Ulyanovsk", "Fishermen of Azov" (1935); "Moonlit Night at the Pearl Sanatorium" (1952), "Gaspra, Crimea" (1953), and "A View of Gurzuf" (1954). Outside of painting, Martynov was known for his postcards, watercolors, and illustrations featured in the magazine Solntse Rossii (Sun of Russia). The artist also designed a number of posters during his career. Some of those titles were, “People's House, September 18th (Sunday), a grand Eastern concert-cabaret and ball [to] help the starving of the Volga Region…”. (1921) and “We will widely expand collective farm trade!” (1932).

By the mid-1890s, the artist was participating in Republican and All-Union exhibitions. Martynov’s solo exhibitions were held in Moscow (1908, 1912) and in Minsk (1918). Since 1938, Anatolii Martynov was a member of Kharkov branch of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. In addition, he was a member of the Association of Decorative Artists that later amalgamed into the Moscow Union of Artists.

According to Soviet-era published sources, Martynov’s place of birth is alternatively recorded as Kharkov.