Research & Records
For researchers, curators and journalists. Each line says how it is known: (document) a paper exists; (family account) told by Ivan to his son Arnold; (theory) our informed view.
Fact sheet
Name: Ivan Ivanovich Garikow; in Russian probably Zharikov (Жариков). In America he also used "I. Garikow" and "John Jarikow".
Born: 12 June 1918, Belaya Glina, southern Russia (document).
Training: art school, Rostov-on-Don; Academy of Arts, Leningrad, 1937 to February 1941 (document: his own statements).
Died: Philadelphia, 1982 (document). Day and month not settled: headstone 26 April, later American records 26 July.
The collection: about 190 paintings and copies of his papers, held together in Orlando, Florida, since 2004.
Timeline
1918 Born in Belaya Glina (document).
1937–41 Academy of Arts, Leningrad (document).
1941 Stage decorator, State Theatre, Petrozavodsk (document). A Red Army private Ivan Ivanovich Zharikov of Belaya Glina is listed missing from 30 October 1941 (document: Russian Defence Ministry list). That it is Ivan: probable, not proven.
1942 Taken by the Germans to dig defences, then on a workers' transport through Poland to Krems an der Donau, Austria (document). Spared after drawing Christ in charcoal on a cell wall, and sent to Krems instead of a concentration camp (family account).
1942–45 Forced labourer; decorator in the camp theatre of the Eastern workers, Krems (document).
1945 St. Valentin, then "fled" (document). Ended the war at or near Mauthausen (family account; theory).
1948 Praised in the refugee newspaper Głos Polski, Salzburg (document).
1945–51 Salzburg, displaced person. Listed among the Salzburg painters of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists, February 1949 (document). Married Lilli 1949; son Arnold born 1950 (document).
1951 Sailed on the USNS General Harry Taylor; admitted at New York, 10 September (documents, including the Arolsen Archives emigration roll).
1952 Photographed painting Broad Street, Evening Bulletin, 7 July (document).
1954 Exhibited at the Barbizon-Plaza Art Gallery, New York, 8–20 May (document: catalogue).
1955 Opened his own gallery, 530 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia; Midtown Crier, 5 May (document).
1962 Bought his house, 1238 North 5th Street (document).
1968 Philadelphia Inquirer feature, 12 May (document).
1972, 1974 Paintings stolen from his studio (document: his own list).
1982 Died in Philadelphia (document).
2004 Collection bought from Arnold Garikow by Marty McDermott (document: contract).
Archive sources
Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, Germany: displaced-person files and the 1951 emigration roll.
Russian Defence Ministry missing-soldier records.
Belaya Glina Museum of Local History.
Ivan's personal papers, in the collection: refugee documents, visa and immigration papers, exhibition catalogues, newspaper clippings, photographs and his family tree in his own hand.
Enquiries open: Mauthausen Memorial; U.S. National Archives (immigration file requested); others.
For researchers
A catalogue of works and a research sourcebook with full references are available on request.