Oil on pine panel, signed at lower left "Doron," presented in an attractive gilt frame.

DOA 11.5 x 15.25 in.

From the Collection of Mr. Robert Myers, sold for the benefit of the Ackland Art Museum
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation, Inc.

Doron received his MFA from Moscow Art Institute. He taught painting and drawing in Moscow and made a living as a book illustrator, but emigrated to the United States in 1981 due to increasing political pressures in Russia.

In a 1997 New York Times article, Doron described his paintings of old barns as follows:
''I thought about how to paint what I loved; I had fallen in love with the architecture and old barns. I tried to connect what people built in the 18th and 19th centuries with the landscape and I felt it was a beautiful connection, both human and warm,'' Mr. Doron said. ''We have great cities in Russia like Leningrad, but the connection between the architecture and humans was ignored. Here there was a close human feeling. I tried to make my art with what people were connected to, the barns or pieces of barns. It's strange, because it's nostalgia for something I've never had.'' (Chamberlain, Frances. An Immigrant Celebrates Light and Land. New York Times. 28 December 1997.)


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