Birutė Žilytė-Steponavičienė

Birutė Janina Grasilda Žilytė-Steponavičienė (2 June 1930 – 3 November 2024) was a Lithuanian graphic artist, book illustrator, painter, and educator.

Biography Žilytė-Steponavičienė was born in , Panevėžys District on 2 June 1930.

Žilytė-Steponavičienė died on 3 November 2024, at the age of 94.

Notable works Pušelė sanatorium murals In 2015 the murals in Valkininkai children's sanatorium "Pušelė" ("Little Pine Tree"), created together with her husband during 1969–1972, were included into the Lithuanian Registry of Cultural Values. On the occasion, the head of the regional Cultural Heritage department Margarita Janušonienė noticed that it is an important example of the cooperation of a duo of complementary artists and the consolidation of creative freedom against Soviet censorship and the regulation of art in public spaces.

The mural paintings constitute 12 compositions of total area of about 110 m².

Her illustrations for Pabėgusi dainelė (Runaway Song, 1966) and Pasaka apie narsią Vilniaus mergaitę ir galvažudį Žaliabarzdį (The Tale of a Brave Girl from Vilnius and Greenbeard the Killer, 1970) earned her the Lithuanian SSR State Award (1971). 2010: Culture and Arts Award of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania 2020: Honorary Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts