Victor Arnautoff

Victor Arnautoff
Виктор Михайлович Арнаутов
Photo taken in 1940
Born	Victor Mikhail Arnautoff November 11, 1896 Uspenovka, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)
Died	March 22, 1979 Leningrad, Soviet Union (now in Russia), buried in Mariupol (now in Ukraine)
Known for	Murals
Notable work	Coit Tower murals, Life of Washington murals

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (born Uspenovka, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire, November 11, 1896 – died Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, March 22, 1979) was a Russian-American painter and professor of art. He worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area from 1925 to 1963, including two decades as a teacher at Stanford University, and was particularly prolific as a muralist during the 1930s. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen, but returned to the Soviet Union after the death of his wife, continuing his career there before his death.