Andrey Avinoff
Russian artist (1884-1949) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 65
Andrey Avinoff was an internationally-known artist, lepidopterist, museum director, professor, bibliophile and iconographer, who served as the director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1945.
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Tulips (“Disintegration”), National Gallery of Art, Gift by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1956
Andrey Avinoff in court dress c. 1910. Shoumatoff Collection, public domain.
Cashmere Bouquet soap advertisement, commissioned by Colgate’s. Avinoff, c. 1923.
Avinoff's logo design for the Sikorsky S-38, 1928.
Avinoff at Carnegie Museum of Natural History with an international colleague
Andrey Avinoff at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh with one of his butterfly collections.
Avinoff in Jamaica while on butterfly expedition with his nephew Nicholas Shoumatoff.About this person
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United States
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Artist
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Deceased
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Lived 1884 to 1949 · aged 65
