art institutions. The collection includes works from the 1950s to the 1980s that are portraits, still lifes, historic images and scenes of Soviet work and life. All of the painters were based in Ukraine and came from various ethnic backgrounds — Russian, Jewish, Tatar and Ukrainian. Most trained or taught at top art academies such as the Kyiv Art Institute (now the Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture). Maniichuk’s goal was to preserve a window into the past and to rescue the paintings for study and reflection by future generations. He brought the collection to the U.S. in 1999. The following year, he married Brady, Moscow bureau chief of BusinessWeek from 1989 to 1993 and later one of its senior editors. When Maniichuk died, in 2009, she began looking for a permanent home for the collec- tion. Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and curator emeritus of the historic Slavic and East European Collections of the New York Public Library, introduced Brady to the Georgia Museum of Art, where she donated these paintings, appreciating its impressive collection of and commitment to studying Russian art.
Danilo Dzevanovsky (Moldovan, 1916 – 2002), “Kherson, In the Port,” 1973. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 × 48 13/16 inches. GMOA 2019.286. Ivan Babenko (Ukrainian, 1935 – 2005), “Waiting, 1945,” 1975 – 85. Oil on canvas, 48 7/16 × 65 3/4 inches. GMOA 2019.287. Mikola Kravtsov (Ukrainian, 1934 – 1980), “Autumn,” 1979. Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 × 46 3/8 inches. GMOA 2019.285. All Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of the Jurii Maniichuk and Rose Brady Collection.
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