Natalia Toreeva

Natalia G. Toreeva (, born April 8, 1941, in Leningrad, USSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia), is a Russian and American artist, writer, and book illustrator.
Life and career
She belonged to the "School of Sidlin" art group, a Russian Nonconformist movement in the 1970s and 1980s formed around the artist Osip Sidlin.
In 1961, after graduating from the Leningrad Engineering School of Clothing (College) with a B.A. in Art, she worked as a Fashion designer in Leningrad. From 1969 until 1971, in parallel with her work at the House of Models, as the Fashion Designer, she was teaching "Design and Composition" at the Leningrad Engineering School of Clothing (College), which was renamed later to the Engineering School of Clothing (College) of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design.
Her art projects, include computer graphics and mixed media, that she mostly used for posters, Banners, literary journals and magazines, and other projects. For example, in the Bonfire for Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), the Russian poet of Silver Age, Toreeva's drawing "Portrait of Marina Tsvetaeva" (mixed media) was presented as the fragment of exposition from their private collection by the "Washington Museum of Russian Poetry and Music", 2016, US.
Museums and collections
* Washington Museum of Russian Poetry and Music 2014-2018, US.

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