David Burliuk, Russian, 1882 to 1967, mixed media on paper still life painting depicting flowers in a jug. Signed lower left. Circa the 1940s. Framed. David Davidovich Burliuk was a poet, artist and publicist associated with the Futurist and Neo Primitivist movements. At the outbreak of World War I, the artist fled to Siberia then Japan before relocating to New York in 1922. His works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, among others. Mid Century Still Life Paintings And Russian Art Collectibles.