Eltsev Valery Alekseevich (1929-2009) - graphic artist, Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1975. Was born on April 4, 1929 in Leningrad. In 1949 he graduated from the Zagorsk art and craft school.
The beginning of creative work in 1961. He worked in various graphic techniques. The main genre is portrait.
Participant of exhibitions: all-Union exhibitions of watercolors (1972, 1975), republican exhibitions «Soviet Russia» (1965, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1991), zonal exhibitions «In a single formation» (1964, 1967), zonal exhibitions «Center. Northern regions» (1969, 1974), zonal exhibitions «Moscow region» (1980, 1984, 1990), art exhibition «Moscow region mine» in the Central Exhibition Hall (1968), exhibitions of works by artists of the Moscow region (1963, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974), regional art exhibition «30 years of Victory» (1975), jubilee exhibition «25 years of the Moscow Region Branch of the Union of Artists» (1972), the jubilee exhibition «50 years of the Moscow Region Branch of the Union of Artists» (1996).
Major works: a series of illustrations for the notebook of poems «Unforgettable», a series of easel illustrations for the tales of Alexander Pushkin. a series of portraits of builders.
Eltsev Valery Alekseevich died on December 5, 2009.
