High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vladimir Bobri (Bobritsky) (Ukrainian: Володимир Бобрі ) (May 13, 1898, Kharkiv, Ukraine – November 1986, Rosendale, New York) was an illustrator, author, composer, educator and guitar historian. Celebrated for his prolific and innovative graphic design work in New York since the mid-1920s, Bobri was also a founder of the New York Society of The Classic Guitar in 1936, and served as editor and art director of its magazine, The Guitar Review, for nearly 40 years.