Liuboslav Hutsaliuk

Liuboslav Hutsaliuk (2 April 1923 – 16 December 2003) was a Ukrainian American painter, graphic artist, cartoonist and caricaturist. Along with Edward Kozak, and Mykhailo Moroz, Hutsaliuk was cited in 1972 as amongst the best known of Ukrainian painters living in the United States, and mentioned as "becoming increasingly popular". In 1982, he was again mentioned as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the United States. He was best known for his "neo-impressionist oil paintings of cityscapes, landscapes and still lifes."

Biography Hutsaliuk was born in Lviv, Poland, on April 2, 1923. He joined the Galicia (Halychyna) SS Division and fought in World War II; wounded in action, he was moved to various displaced persons camps after the war had finished. He married Renata Kozicky in 1951, and they had a son, Yarema. The following year, in 1956, Hutsaliuk held his first major exhibition at the Galerie Ror Volmar in Paris. Hutsaliuk produced many watercolor paintings and many drawings which he showcased throughout the United States and beyond but was best known for his "neo-impressionist oil paintings of cityscapes, landscapes and still lifes." His work was displayed in many one man shows in galleries in major cities such as Milan and Toronto, in addition to New York and Paris.

He garnered critical acclaim in numerous artistic publications in these cities for his urban landscape paintings, painting with a "bold and aggressive impasto technique and a lyric color." He published art reviews in the daily newspaper Svoboda and the artistic journal Suchasnist. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was a contributor to the Josyf Slipyj Memorial Museum of the Lviv Theological Academy in his native Lviv, along with numerous other emigre Ukrainian artists.

With Butovich, Kozak, Moroz, as well as Jacques Hnizdovsky and Sviatoslav Hordynsky, Hutsaliuk was considered a notable Ukrainian-American artist. He died on 16 December 2003, and he was buried at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook, New Jersey on 23 December in a funeral attended by many notable Ukrainians living in the states and of the Halychyna Division.