The main subjects of Abram Grushko's artwork were nature and the people of Zaonezhye (Onega Lake region, Karelia). His traditional plain air paintings in 1960 were replaced by decorative graphics solutions, similar to "severe style" with clarity of the silhouette, saturated colors, or a generalized drawing. Coloring was restrained, with a predominance of dark-brown, ocher, and blue tones.
Since 1961, Abram Grushko was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.[4] In the years of 1965 – 1980, Abram Grushko worked as an Art Teacher at Vera Mukhina Institute of Art and Design. Abram Borisovich Grushko died on 15 March 1980, in Leningrad at the age of 61. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[5] Israel, Germany, the USA, England, Japan, France,[6] and other countries around the world.
^Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. – p.291.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 15, 360, 389, 390, 392–394, 396, 399, 400, 403–406, 445.
^Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.- p.67.
^Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. - p.15.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
^L' École de Leningrad. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 11 Juin 1990. – p.44-45.
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