“Brilliance
of invention and technique, a deep understanding of the story
of art, an abiding love of nature, and an uncompromising commitment
to artistic quality - these coalesce to produce a graphic
oeuvre of great distinction, justifiably recognized as an
important contribution to the history of twentieth century
prints.”
This apt description of the graphic work of Jacques Hnizdovsky
comes from the catalogue for a major 1995 exhibition of his
paintings and prints at The Ukrainian Museum of New York.
It was written by Prof. Jaroslaw Leshko of Smith College.
Hnizdovsky was born in Ukraine in 1915 and he studied art
in Warsaw and Zagreb. Soon after he moved to the United States
in 1949, A. Hyatt Mayor of the Metropolitan Museum chose his
woodcut Bush for a Purchase Award at the 1950 Minneapolis
Institute of Art print exhibition. That was a key moment encouraging
the artist to abandon other work and become a full-time artist.
Between 1950 and his death in 1985 the artist produced more
than 375 prints, primarily woodcuts and linocuts, as well
as several fine etchings.
The extraordinary clarity and beauty of design of Hnizdovsky’s
prints remained constant during the 1960’s and 1970’s
when so many fine printmakers, some for better and some for
worse, fell under the more commercial spirit of the art of
the times. His graphic work is always distinctively his own,
even though he openly drew influences from his love of Durer,
Japanese prints and the folk art designs of his native Borshchiv.
Hnizdovsky’s work was exhibited at many one-man shows
throughout the U.S., including shows at Associated American
Artists in 1971 and 1979. His works have also been in major
foreign exhibitions- in the USSR in 1963, Japan in 1967, Italy
in 1972, Canada in 1983 and 1985 and Ukraine in 1990. In 1987
a fine fully illustrated catalogue raisonné Jacques
Hnizdovsky: Woodcuts and Etchings was produced by Abe
M. Tahir, Jr. with a foreword by Peter A. Wick. We hope
you find looking at these works as pleasurable as we do. Enjoy!
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