Anatoly Kanushkin was born in Moscow on March 18, 1937.
Painter, graphic artist, art critic, educator. He studied at art school in the House of pioneers of the Kiev district with teachers Sergei Gerasimov and Boris Yakovlev. In 1950 he entered the Moscow secondary art school at the Institute named after Surikov. His teachers were Alexander Barsh and Yury Gusev. Graduated from art school in 1956.
In 1956 he entered the Moscow state academic art school of memory of 1905. He studied with educators Mikhail Dobroserdov, Vasily Baksheev, Alexander Dubinchik, Osip Avsiyan. He graduated from the school in 1961. Since 1964 he has been participating the international, all-Union, Republican and Moscow exhibitions; more than 80 exhibitions, including following:
From III to X all-Union exhibition of watercolor paintings; exhibitions of Soviet watercolor paintings abroad; III all-Union exhibition of prints; Zonal exhibition in 1991. VIII national exhibition in 1992; "Artists of Russia are in Moscow" in 1997; Moscow exhibition dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow in 1997; autumn and spring exhibitions of the Moscow Union of artists in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999; "Moscow – St.-Petersburg" in 1999; the Republican exhibition "Boldino autumn" in 1999; the Russian exhibition "To Your Name" dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of the Christmas in 2000; Exhibition "70 years of the Moscow Union of artists," 2002; international exhibition "60 Years of Victory" in 2005; Republican exhibition of landscape in 2006 in Vologda; "75 Years of the Moscow Union of artists ", 2007; "World of Painting" in 2001, 2006, 2007's, 2010; the exhibition "Moscow - the artists - Moscow" in 2008.
Kanushkin Anatoly is a member of the Union of Artists since 1977.
The main genres of his works - landscape, still life, interior, portrait.
Personal exhibition in October 2006 at the Gallery of Pictorial Art (1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya sr., 20).
Personal exhibition in December 2006 in the exhibition hall of the Moscow Union of Artists "On Begovaya st." (Begovaya st., 7/9).
His works show in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
The main publications:
- Catalog "World of painting", Information-publishing Department of the Moscow Union of artists, Moscow, 2002.
- Catalog "Painters of Moscow". Moscow: LLC "Painting-info" 2004. p. 140
- "Pictorial Art of Russia" volume 1, "National Palace of arts" Moscow 2005.
- Lisenkova E. A. "Exhibition by Anatoly Kanushkin". "World of painting", the newspaper of Moscow artists Union No. 10-11(56-57) October - November 2006.
- Catalog "III Russian art exhibition of landscape painting "Image of Motherland", Vologda. 2006.
- "Encyclopedia of artists" volume 2, Publishing company “Painting-info”. Moscow 2007.
- “50 years of the Moscow Union of artists”, Union of artists of Russia, 2008.
- "Artist and model", the Publishing company “Painting-info”. Moscow, 2008.
- "Russian province", plein air painting. Moscow 2009.
- "Still life", Publishing house, LLC “Painting-info”. Moscow 2010.
