Simka Simkhovitch (1885–1949)

Simkovich Simka Faibusovich was a painter, graphic artist, and teacher (1885-1949). He was born into the family of a Jewish petty bourgeois in the town of Novozybkov, Chernigov Governorate (now part of the Bryansk Oblast). In 1924, Simkovich emigrated to the United States with his family. In his early years, he lived in New York; in the early 1930s, he moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he eventually opened an art school and worked for many years. The artist painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, paintings on the theme of the circus, and decorative panels.