Thomas Sgovio [SEP] country of citizenship
Thomas Sgovio
Thomas Sgovio (7 October 1916 – 3 July 1997) was an American artist, ex-Communist, and former inmate of a Soviet Union GULAG camp in Kolyma. His father was an Italian American communist, deported by the US authorities to the USSR because of his political activities.
Biography.
He was born in Buffalo, New York on 7 October 1916.
Sgovio moved to the USSR at the age of 19 with his father Joseph "...who the United States deported as a communist agitator
of fellow inmates, which could be sent home in place of photographs to mask the horrors of the prisoners’ lives.
The culture clubs and barracks were also decorated by KVCh artists. Painters reproduced famous nineteenth-century Russian paintings, often of the Peredvizhniki School, to be hung in the administrative buildings. Thomas Sgovio, an Italian-American artist, was provided with an art studio in the OLP Mestprom where he and two other artists worked full-time to reproduce famous paintings which were then sold to the free-