biographie de Jacques HNIZDOVSKY (1915-1985)

Birth place: Pylypcze, Ukraine

Death place: Bronx, NY

Addresses: Riverdale, NY

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: Acad. Fine Arts, Warsaw; Acad. Fine Arts, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Exhibited: Boston PM Annual, Mus. FA, Boston, 1961-; Contemporary U.S. Graphic Arts, USSR, 1963; Contemporary U.S. PM, Tokyo, Japan, 1967;Lumley-Cazalet, London, England, 1969 & 1972 (solos); solo retrospective, Ten Years of Woodcuts, Assoc. Am. Artists, NYC, 1971. Awards: Tiffany fellowship, 1961; first prize for woodcut, Mus. FA, Boston, 1962; MacDowell Colony fellowship, 1963.

Member: SAGA; Audubon Artists; Boston PM; Int. Platform Assn.

Work: Mus. FA, Boston; PMA; CMA; Nelson Rockefeller Coll.; MOMA, Spain.

Comments: Came to U.S. in 1949. Preferred media: oils, woodcuts. Illustr.: (woodcuts), Poems of John Keats," Crowell-Collier, 1964; (woodcuts), "Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," Crowell-Collier, 1967; illustr., "Tree Trails in Central Park," 1971. Co-auth./ illustr.: " Flora Exotica," D. Godine, Boston, 1972.

Sources: WW73; Slavko Nowytski, "Sheep in Wood" (film), Am. Film Festival, New York, 1971."