Kateryna Antonovych

Kateryna Mykhaylivna Antonovych ( Serebryakova ; 23 October 1884 – 22 February 1975) was a Ukrainian artist, children's book illustrator and professor of art history. She was active in Ukrainian women's and community organizations.

Life Kateryna Serebryakova was born in 1884 in Kharkiv. She studied at Kharkiv State School of Art but did not graduate. Later she entered the natural science course at First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg (then the Medical Institute for Women) and studied for four years. After her marriage to Dmitro Antonovych, she moved to Kyiv where she attended classes of the painters Vasyl Krychevsky and Mykhailo Boychuk at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. Later she taught drawing at the Rzhyshchev Pedagogical Institute and illustrated several children's books. Mykhailo and , Antonovych emigrated to Prague, where she continued her artistic training at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts (known as the Ukrainian Academy). In 1927 she started work at the in Prague. She worked there until 1944 and in the following February the museum was bombed by the United States Army Air Forces who thought they were bombing the German city of Dresden. She helped to edit the children's magazine Nashym ditiam (For Our Children) and chaired the Committee on the Ukrainian Children's Orphanage in Podëbrady from 1929 to 1939. As an active member of several Ukrainian academic, community and women's organizations, she contributed regularly to the Ukrainian press.

Antonovych arranged illustrations for the magazine Veselka (Rainbow) and edited translations of various fairy tales. The archival reference number is R4695.