Nicholas Petkovich

Nicholas Petkovich (; 18 August 1893 - 16 October 1952) was a Serbian-American artist and priest, first of the Serbian Orthodox Church, then of the Episcopal Church.

Biography Nikola Petkovich was born on 18 August 1893 in Inđija, then part of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, today in Serbia. He was the youngest child of Mladen and Judita (née Vukičević) Petkovich. in Shadyside. There he served on a voluntary basis and befriended Bishop Lauriston L. Scaife, and two artists Norwood Hodge MacGilvary (1874-1949), and Andrey Avinoff. All three would change the direction of Petkovich's life. Petkovich met MacGilvary while he was a student at Carnegie Tech. As associate professor of Art, MacGilvary was impressed with the talents of Nikolaj, now Nicholas, and appointed him to the faculty as "Messier", so that Petkovich need pay no tuition. Later, Petkovich would meet Dr. Avinoff, an entomologist and artist who was at the time Director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. When Petkovich accepted to be an assistant minister at Cavalry Episcopal Church, Nicholas Petkovich's works are on display at Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and other collections are being sold on a regular basis.