Artist, Teacher Sergei Bongart Dies at Age 66
Sergei Bongart, a Russian immigrant who came to America in 1948 and established a reputation both as an artist and a teacher, has died in Santa Monica, it was learned this week.
He was 66 when he died at St. John’s Hospital of kidney ailments.
Winner of awards from the National Academy of Design and National Academy of Western Art, he also was a member of the American Watercolor Society and Great Britain’s Royal Society of Arts.
Bongart, who taught and owned art schools in Idaho and Santa Monica, was considered a contemporary impressionist, but Times art critic William Wilson favorably reviewed some of his more traditional oil paintings in 1970, calling his “vigorous lake-mountain-and-sky” works “energetic.”
He was part of a PBS television series two years ago titled “Profiles in American Art.”
Bongart, who died March 3, is survived by his wife, Pat LeGrande, also an artist and instructor.
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