Sergei Bongart was a painter and educator who was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He later on settled in Santa Monica, California and painted many works in that area. He received his education from the Kiev Art Academy in Ukraine. Exhibited: Frye Art Mus.; LACMA; NAD; De Young Mem. Mus.; MMA; Zachary Waller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1970s. Awards: grand nat. gold medal, Am. Artists Prof. League, NYC, 1959; first prize in West Coast Oil Painting Exhib., Frye Mus., 1962; silver med., AWC Soc., 1969. Member: NAD; Am.WC Soc; Royal Soc Arts; Soc. Western Artists. Work: Theater Mus., Kiev, Russia; NAD; Laguna Beach Art Mus., Calif.; Long Beach Art Mus., Calif.; Frye Art Mus., Seattle, Wash. Comments: Preferred media: oils, acrylics. Teaching: instr. drawing & painting, Sergei Bongart Sch. Art, Santa Monica, Calif., 1949-. Sources: WW73; Janice Lovoos, The Paintings of Sergei Bongart,” Am Artist (Sept.,1962); Nancy Kalis, “Sergei Bongart: Romantic Realist with a Russian Soul” Art Rev (1969); Wendon Blake, Complete Guide to Acrylic Painting (Watson-Guptill, 1971).”