Portrait of a Woman in a Hat

Mykhailo Osinchuk

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-921
Author: Mykhailo Osinchuk
Name: Portrait of a Woman in a Hat
Technique: etching
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 12 x 12.2

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Mykhailo Osinchuk
Artist's lifetime: 1890–1969
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, the USA
Biography: Mykhailo Osinchuk (16 September 1890, Holoshyntsi village (now part of Koziari village, Ternopil region) – 13 February 1969, New York, USA) was a Ukrainian monumentalist, iconographer, graphic artist, painter, and educator. Professor, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, co-founder of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (1931), and honorary chairman of the Ukrainian Artist's Association in the USA (1952). The artist created new forms of 20th-century icon painting based on traditional Ukrainian folk art, which continues the centuries-old tradition of Byzantine icons in Ukraine. In 1910, he graduated from Ternopil Gymnasium and later studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts (course of J. Pankiewicz) (1910–1914). Simultaneously, he attended the Faculty of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Osinchuk studied Byzantine icon painting, mosaic, and tempera painting technology. From November 1918, he served as a cartographer in the Secretariat of Internal Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk). He was a member of the Ukrainian Galician Army and the Ukrainian People's Army. In the 1920s, he taught at Ukrainian gymnasiums in Drohobych and Rohatyn. Since 1922, the artist lived and worked in Lviv. In 1944, fearing Stalinist terror, he moved to Germany and then to the United States (New York). In 1964, Osinchuk's personal exhibition took place in Philadelphia (USA). Later, a monograph dedicated to the artist's work, titled "Mykhailo Osinchuk. Mystets-Maliar" ("Mykhailo Osinchuk. Artist-Painter)" was published in New York. Mykhailo Osinchuk was the author of over a dozen iconostases and individual icons, historical compositions, woodcuts, bookplates, and illustrations for works by Ukrainian writers. His work includes portraits of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi and Cardinal Yosyf Slipyi, among others. In the 1930s, in collaboration with artist Pavlo Kovzhun, Osinchuk created church polychromes in the Ukrainian Byzantine style in more than twelve churches in Galicia. He also participated in the interior decoration of St. George's Cathedral in Lviv. The Gallery's collection (Yaroslava Muzyka fund) contains 14 paintings and about 40 graphic works by the artist, including a bookplate for Anna Stefanovych's books, which in 1933 won an award from the Society of Ukrainian Writers and Journalists in Lviv.

Object description

The engraving depicts a bust portrait of a young woman in a wide-brimmed hat. She is wearing a formal dress with a stand-up collar. Her black hair is pulled up in a high hairstyle. The portrait is enclosed in a square frame.

Inscriptions

On the reverse, at the bottom right, there is a pencil inscription: "Osinchuk".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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