Cherkassky Abram is a painter and a teacher, the People’s Artist of the Kazakh SSR, and the Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR.

He was born in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine. He studied at the Kiev Art School and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, as a pupil of A.A. Murashko and N.K. Pimonenko. From 1917 he lived in Vinnitsa. From 1926 to 1937 he taught at the Kiev Art Institute. In 1937 – 1940 because of Stalin’s policy, he was convicted as a Polish spy and exiled to Karlag near Karaganda. After his return, he was evacuated with his family to Aktobe in 1941, then moved to Alma-Ata, where he taught at the State Art School named after N.V. Gogol from 1941 to 1960.

Abram Cherkassky’s works are marked by the highest pictorial culture, subtlety, beauty of colour relations, and deep penetration into the world of nature. His preference was for vibrant paste painting, clear brushwork, and an appreciation for texture. One can see it in the work In a Park.