Loans to: The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search
of Modernity and Identity,
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Maquette for book cover: Workers’ Library: Literature and Art, c. 1930
Gouache, ink, and cut-and-pasted gelatin silver print on paper
10 5/8 x 16 3/4” (27 x 42.5 cm)

Opening this week at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, is the exhibition The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and Identity (May 24–October 13, 2024). Organized by guest curator Konstantin Akinsha, the exhibition examines “the work of three leading modern artists from Ukraine who produced work during an astonishing period of the country’s cultural renaissance in the early twentieth century: Alexander Archipenko (1887–1964), Oleksandr Bohomazov (1880–1930), and Vasyl Yermilov (1894–1968).” This is the first exhibition of Modern Ukrainian art organized in North America since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022.

We are delighted to be able to support this exhibition with the loan of six rare works by Vasyl Yermilov, pictured here.

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Maquette for book cover: Oleksander Maryamov,
Shores of the Twelve Waters,1930
Gouache, ink, and cut-and-pasted halftone prints on paper
12 1/8 x 24” (31.8 x 61 cm)

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Poster: All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the
10th Anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927
Woodblock, 39 3/8 x 29 1/8” (100 x 74 cm)

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Proof for poster: Exhibition of Ukrainian Books and Periodicals on the 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927
Woodblock, 38 5/8 x 26 1/4” (98.1 x 66.7 cm)

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Poster: State Publishing House of Ukraine, c. 1929–1930
31 3/8 x 23 5/8” (79.7 x 60 cm)

Vasyl Yermilov (Ukrainian, 1894–1968)
Periodical (Ukrainian and Esperanto): Avantgarde, 1929
Letterpress, 12 x 9 x 1/8” (30.5 x 23 cm)

May 21, 2024