Olexa Bulavytsky. Fedoryshyn’s house. Manitoba. Canada. Canvas, oil. 1969. Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora

Ukrainian and American artist Olexa Bulavytsky painted the landscape “Fedoryshyn’s House” in 1969 in the Canadian province of Manitoba, where the first Ukrainian immigrant peasants settled in the late nineteenth century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the artist frequently visited Canada and created many impressionistic landscapes that became a vivid pictorial embodiment of the memory of the first Ukrainians in Canada. In 1994, he donated 40 of his works to Ukraine, which formed the base of the Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora collection.