Yakiv Hnizdovskyi (1915–1985) spent most of his working life in New York after fleeing Soviet-occupied Ukraine through a chain of displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria following World War II. He built an international reputation primarily as a printmaker — his woodcuts in particular attracted serious institutional attention in the United States. This coin was issued in the centenary year of his birth.
Yakiv Hnizdovskyi (1915–1985) spent most of his working life in New York after fleeing Soviet-occupied Ukraine through a chain of displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria following World War II. He built an international reputation primarily as a printmaker — his woodcuts in particular attracted serious institutional attention in the United States. This coin was issued in the centenary year of his birth.