Oksana Liaturynska

Oksana Zinaida Mykhailivna Liaturynska (February 1, 1902 – June 13, 1970) was an artist, sculptor, writer, poet and public figure. Liaturynska signed her works either by her own name or by pen names: Oksana Pechenih, Roksana Vyshnevetska and Yeronim.

Biography Oksana Liaturynska was born on 1 February 1902 in Katerynivka

Works Liaturynska repeatedly turned to Ukrainian folk tradition both in her literature

She took part in a number of exhibitions in London, Paris, and Berlin and gained recognition as a master of sculptural portraits. She created the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Pardubice (1932) and the busts of Taras Shevchenko, Tomáš Masaryk, Symon Petliura and Yevhen Konovalets. Several gravestones made by Liaturynska can be seen in Prague cemeteries.

She painted portraits with pencil and charcoal, rarely with a pen and hardly ever used paint. She also worked in ceramics, made colourful and original dolls and Pysanky (Easter eggs). In 1956, these two collections and the book Veselka (Rainbow) were published together in one volume.

Commemoration A monument to Liaturynska was unveiled in 2002 in Khomy hamlet in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth, funded by the writer Gavril Chernykhivsky, the family, the Zbarazh district community, and the Ternopil Writers' Union.