Liudmyla Morozova

Emigration was not easy. […] Five years in Germany at American refugee camps – and I kept drawing all the time. When there was nothing to draw on, I used to take little trays at restaurants or cut cardboard in the streets.

Liudmyla Morozova

Liyudmyla Morozova was a Ukrainian and American impressionist artist, philanthropist, and donor to the restoration of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv.

The artist was born on July 6, 1907, in Kyiv to a family of a lawyer. She was educated at Kyiv Artistic-Industrial vocational school (1925─1927) and at Kyiv Art Institute (1928─1931). In 1943 she and her mother emigrated abroad. She stayed at DP camps in Berchtesgaden and Aschaffenburg. On April 25, 1951, the artist arrived in the United States on board the ship “Gen. R.M.Blatchford”. She taught painting and drawing in the United States, and she joined the American Association of Ukrainian Artists. The artist used to go to Greece to paint in the plain air; she visited Rhodes, Mykonos, Santorini, and Mystra. When Ukraine got its independence, Morozova donated a part of her works to museum collections of her Motherland. She died in Hunter, New York, on March 1, 1997. According to her will, she is buried in Kyiv, at the Berkovtsy сemetery. The artist’s heritage is fairly significant; it includes, for the most part, oil landscapes and portraits painted in an impressionistic manner.