Impression Exlibris, artist Hnizdovsky Jacques

In his woodwork, Yakiv Hnizdovsky often depicted plants and animals. The main reason for this was the artist's lack of funds to pay for models after moving to New York. However, what was initially just a forced substitute later became his main and favorite subject.

One of the artist's favorite "models" is a sheep from the Bronx Zoo, which posed for one of Hnizdovsky's most famous engravings, "Sheep". This print was featured on the poster of Hnizdovsky's highly successful exhibition at the Lumley Casale Gallery in London.

Having become a popular subject, the artist placed the image of a sheep on the bookplate, in which these same sheep watch each letter.

It should be noted that at one time two of his works decorated the office of US President John F. Kennedy in the White House.

Yakov Hnizdovsky's works are also kept in numerous museum and private collections around the world, including the Library of Congress (Washington), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Delaware, the University of Washington, the Nelson Rockefeller Collection (USA) and others. At one time, the artist created the bookplate of the Ukrainian Seminar of Harvard College, part of which became the logo of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University.

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Jacques HNIZDOVSKY - was born in 1915 in the village of Pylypche (Ukraine). He came from a family of Galician outlying nobility of the Hnizdovsky family of the Korab coat of arms. The artist painted with oil paints and tempera, various solid dyes, engraved on wooden and metal boards, and sometimes sculpted small forms. His legacy includes hundreds of paintings, as well as more than 300 prints (woodcuts, etchings, and linocuts).

From 1938, he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts on a scholarship from Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Due to the outbreak of World War II, from 1939 he studied at the Zagreb Academy of Arts (Croatia). 1949 - Moved to the United States, settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was hired as a designer at the Brown and Bigelow advertising firm. 1956-1958 - improved his skills in Paris.

In 1954, he had his first solo exhibition in the United States. The final recognition of Hnizdovsky's skills in the United States came when the gallery of the Association of American Artists in New York bought 220 prints of his series of woodcuts "Pines".

During his two short years in Paris, Hnizdovsky had three successful exhibitions. There, he exhibited oil paintings, ceramics, and small-scale sculpture for the first time. After 1960, Hnizdovsky's artistic reputation grew and he gained international recognition. His works were widely exhibited in Africa and the Middle East, in the UK, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Japan.

You can learn more about Yakov Hnizdovsky and his work by watching a short film from the Ukrainian Museum in the United States:

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