| |
By E. Morgan Williams, Ukraine Market Reform Group (UMRG)
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2003
|
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2003, (ArtUkraine.com)...A capacity crowd
was on hand Wednesday evening, April 30, 2003, at the Embassy of Ukraine
in Washington, D.C. to view the paintings and archives of Vasyl Hryhorovych
Krychevsky that are now being donated by the Vasyl H. Krychevsky family in
Caracas, Venezuela, to various museums in Ukraine.
The one time viewing of the selected works "From Caracas to Ukraine"
was sponsored by the Embassy of Ukraine and SigmaBleyzer. Kostyantyn
Gryshchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA opened the exhibition
and welcomed the many guests to the Embassy. Natasha Bleyzer spoke
about the significant historic legacy of Vasyl H. Krychevsky (1873-1952)
and his many outstanding contributions to Ukrainian art and culture as an
architect, painter, illustrator, designer, scholar, and folk-art collector.
|
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine
to the USA opened the exhibition and welcomed the many guests to the
Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C.
Embassy of Ukraine in Washington website photo
(Click on image to enlarge it)
|
Oksana Linde de Ochoa, granddaughter of Vasyl H. Krychevsky,
spoke on behalf of her artist mother, Halyna V. Krychevska Linde, and her
family from Caracas, Venezuela, who are donating over 300 historic items
to several museums in Ukraine. Halyna V. Krychevska Linde is only child
of Vasyl H. Krychevsky and his second wife Yevhenia M. Scherbakivska
Krychevska. Vasyl and Yevhenia were married in 1912 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Oksana told about the amazing creative life of her grandfather and
his long journey, one that spanned many difficult time periods, from
Vorozhba, Kharkiv province, where he was born on January 12, 1873, to
Poltava, to Kyiv, to Lviv, to various places in Europe, then to Paris and
finally to Caracas, Venezuela, where he died on November 15, 1952.
The Vasyl H. Krychevsky collection of over 300 items being donated
to museums in Ukraine includes over 50 oil and watercolor paintings,
sketches of his prize winning design for the City Council Building in
Poltava (1900)(now a folk-art museum), several sketches of his design
for the Shevchenko Memorial Museum in Kaniv from the early 1930's,
drawings for book covers, plays, movie sets, designs for textiles and
tapestries, ornamental patterns, sketches for various illustrations,
photographs and a variety of other historic items related to the life of
Vasyl H. Krychevsky.
|
The Vasyl H. Krychevsky collection will be on display in the
Ukrainian House in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, May 12th. The display will
then travel to Poltava and will be on view at the new plant of the Poltava
Confectionary Company, owned by the Ukrainian Growth Funds (UGF)
managed by SigmaBleyzer, on Wednesday, May 14th.
The fourth and last viewing of the Krychevsky collection will be in
Kharkiv, Ukraine on Friday, May 14th. The collection will then be split
up and given to a variety of museums in Ukraine including the National
Gallery in Kyiv, Shevchenko Memorial Museum in Kaniv, folk-art museum
in Poltava, art museum in Kharkiv, movie museum in Kyiv and the book
museum at the Lavra in Kyiv.
Oksana Linde de Ochoa of Caracas contacted E. Morgan Williams,
founder and editor of www.ArtUkraine.com and the ArtUkraine Information
Service (ARTUIS) in the fall of 2000, about the interest of the Krychevsky
family in donating a collection of historic items to museums in Ukraine.
Work was started in the spring of 2001 to gather the necessary
items and documents, and find support for the project and the donation.
Natasha and Michael Bleyzer of Houston, Texas, originally from Kharkiv,
Ukraine, were contacted about the project and their company, SigmaBleyzer,
generously became the official sponsor of the project: the four exhibitions,
the physical documentation and the moving of the large collection from
Caracas, to the US and now to Ukraine.
|
Natasha Bleyzer spoke about the significant historic
legacy of Vasyl H. Krychevsky (1873-1952)
Embassy of Ukraine in Washington website photo
Oksana Linde de Ochoa, granddaughter of Vasyl H. Krychevsky,
spoke on behalf of her artist mother, Halyna V. Krychevska Linde, and presented a book about her grandfather to the Ambassador of
Ukraine to the USA, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
Embassy of Ukraine in Washington website photo
(Click on image to enlarge it)
|
HISTORICAL NOTES: FROM THE EDITOR OF www.ArtUkraine.com
HISTORICAL DATA ABOUT VASYL HRYHOROVYCH
KRYCHEVSKY (VHK) (1873-1952) AND HIS ARTISTIC FAMILY
1. VHK: VHK was born in the Vorozhba, Kharkiv province, Ukraine,
January 12, 1873 and died in Caracas, Venezuela, November 15, 1952.
2. VHK'S Brother: VHK's younger brother was Fedir Krychevsky. Fedir
became a well-known painter, artist and professor in Ukraine. He lived
in Ukraine all his life and died in Kyiv in the late 1940's.
3. VHK'S Wife: VHK's first wife was Varvara Marchenko Krychevska.
Two sons by this marriage became well-known artists, Mykola V.
Krychevsky and Vasyl V. Krychevsky.
4. VHK'S Son: Mykola Vasyliovych Krychevsky---VHK's son Mykola
V. was an artist and left Ukraine in the early 1940's and settled in Paris.
He died in Paris. Mykola was not married.
5. VHK'S Son: Vasyl Vasyliovych Krychevsky---VHK's son Vasyl V.
was an artist and left Ukraine in the early 1940's and eventually settled in
California. He died in California. Vasyl V.'s daughter, Kateryna, is a well-
known artist and still lives in California.
6. VHK'S Second Wife: His second wife was Yevhenia M. Scherbakivska
Krychevska. They were married in 1912 in Kyiv. Yevhenia, as a youth,
studied the piano. She was a student of the famous piano teacher Mykola
Lysenko in Kyiv and lived with a group of Lysenko's students.
Yevhenia M. Scherbakivska's brothers included Danylo Scherbakivsky,
a famous Ukrainian researcher, scholar and ethnographer and Vadym
Scherbakivsky, who was director of the famous museum in Poltava.
Vadym later moved to Prague and then to London where he died. Vadym
wrote a book about Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, his sister's husband.
7. VHK'S Daughter: Vasyl H. Krychevsky and Yevhenia M.
Scherbakivska Krychevska only had one child, Halyna V. Krychevska.
Halyna studied art and architecture at the academy in Kyiv and also
became an artist. Halyna also studied languages and speaks seven
languages.
Halyna V. Krychevska married Ivan Ivanovych Linde from Karlovka
in the Poltava region. They were married in Kyiv. They had four
children, Irma, Myroslava, Oksana, and Vasyl. Halyna and her
family stayed with her mother and father (Vasyl H. and Yevhenia
M.) through their journey's in Ukraine and into Europe and moved
with them to Caracas, Venezuela.
Halyna still lives in Caracas, Venezuela and is the donor of the
Krychevsky collection to the museums in Ukraine, assisted by her
daughter, Oksana Linde de Ochoa.
8. VHK'S Stepson: Yevhenia M. Scherbakivska (VHK's second
wife) had a son by her first marriage. The son was Vadim M.
Pavlovsky. Vadim M. Pavlovsky became VHK's stepson.
Pavlovsky studied to become a chemist and left Kyiv in the early
1940's. He eventually settled in New York City and became a serious
collector and promoter of his stepfather's art works and historical
legacy.
Vadim Pavlovsky assisted in the holding of several exhibitions of his
stepfather, Vasyl H. Krychevsky's works, wrote a book about him
and donated his important, very large collection to the Ukrainian Museum
in New York City. Vadim died in NYC.
|
|
back
)
)
