O. Liaturynska caricature M.Butovych

This file contains an undated caricature of Oksana Liaturynska (b. 1 February 1902 in Katerburg, Volhynia gubernia, Russian Empire, d. 13 June 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) who was a writer, sculptor, artist, poet and public figure. To escape an arranged marriage, she emigrated at the age of 22. She first moved to Germany, then to Czechoslovakia, where she studied and afterwards ran her studio in Prague for ten years. She survived the Second World War but ended in a camp for displaced persons and emigrated to the United States in 1949, where she rebuilt her career. The caricature was sketched by Mykola Butovych, who emigrated to the United States in 1947.