About The Artist

Jurij Hura (Yer-ih Hoo-ruh)  July 7, 1930 – June 12, 2021  Born in Lviv, Ukraine, his family escaped deportation to Siberia by fleeing to Krakow Poland in 1942. He studied at the Lyceum of Fine Arts and the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts graduating in 1956.  Despite pressure from Soviet idealogues promoting socialist realism, Jurij continued to find his own realist style. After publishing his “Series for the 20th Century” paintings expressing his opposition to the communist system, he emigrated to the USA.  He designed the Ukrainian Catholic Museum in Rome. In 1982 he organized an art department at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown. His works have been exhibited internationally, and are represented in collections at museums in Poland, Italy, Canada, and USA.

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One of Hura's most significant contributions was his reimagining of Ukrainian historical events through a contemporary lens. His paintings like "Prince Sviatoslav" and "Ukraine Rus the Invincible" captured the essence of Ukraine's past while infusing it with his distinctive artistic