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“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.