The National Famine-Genocide Museum received a thematic collection of books and works of art that once belonged to the American philanthropist Morgan Williams. In total, these are about 600 items, including paintings, graphics, linocuts.
These are paintings, badges, stamps, envelopes, that is, branded products related to the Holodomor, books, booklets, information about exhibitions related to this collection, etc.
One of the last works that was added to the collection is "Hunger" by the Ukrainian artist Viktor Zaretskyi. Also in the Williams collection were linocuts from the series "Food of the Holodomor" by the Ukrainian graphic artist Mykola Bondarenko and the works of the Ukrainian graphic artist Volodymyr Kutkin, who survived exile and had 2 series of works about the Holodomor and the Gulag.
The collection was handed over by the heirs of patron Morgan Williams, who was not Ukrainian and had no Ukrainian roots. This is what is phenomenal, according to the general director of the museum, Lesya Hasydzhak.
"This transfer is important for us as an institution. No one except Morgan started collecting his own art, which is a reflection on the knowledge of the history of the genocide of the Ukrainian nation," said Hasydzhak.
Williams began collecting his collection dedicated to the Holodomor in 1997. At that time, he worked as a representative of the US government in the Ukrainian agricultural sector. The politician was very impressed by how terrible this page of history was.
Williams began by buying the works of Ukrainian artists who wrote about the Holodomor.
The museum owners already have a donation agreement, but there is no act listing all the items in the collection yet.
Source:
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