Hryhorii Kryzhevskyi
1918–1992 Honoured Artist of Ukraine
Represented in the collection with Crimean views, including scenes from Gurzuf.
Born in Kharkiv in 1918, he served in World War II and was decorated for combat. In 1951 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute, studying under S. Besiedin, H. Bondarenko, and M. Derehus.
He went on to teach at the Odesa Art School, where his students included Volodymyr Lytvynenko, also featured in this collection. His daughter Svitlana became a painter and art historian; his granddaughter Natalia Harmyder is an artist too.
Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1974) and a member of the Artists' Union since 1954, he held solo exhibitions in Odesa, Kyiv, Chișinău, Kakhovka, and Kherson between 1962 and 2000. He painted his final work, "The Last Still Life," in 1992, the year he died.