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Jacques Hnizdovsky Biographie
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1949 |
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Shortly after he arrived in the USA, A. Hyatt Mayor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art chose one of his woodcuts for a Purchase Award at a 1950 Minneapolis Institute of Art print exhibition
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1962 |
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He was awarded First Prize at the Boston Printmakers annual exhibition for his print “The Sheep”
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1963 |
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Invited to participate in the Contemporary U.S. Graphic Arts exhibition which traveled to the U.S.S.R.
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1972 |
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His woodcuts were included in the Triennale Internazionale della Xilographica in Italy
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1975 |
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A catalogue raisonné of his woodcuts Hnizdovsky Woodcuts 1944 - 1975 was published by Pelican Publishing Company of Gretna, Louisiana
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1987 |
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An updated version Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcuts and Etchings was published, including all woodcuts, linocuts and etchings made during his lifetime.
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Studied art in Warsaw and Zagreb.
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A master printmaker, by the end of the 1950s Hnizdovsky settled into woodcut as his primary medium. He produced more than 375 prints between 1950 and his death in 1985.
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*Hnizdovsky has contributed illustrations to The Poems of John Keats, 1964; The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1967; Tree Trails of Central Park, 1971; Flora Exotica, 1972; The Poems of Thomas Hardy, 1979; The Traveler’s Tree, 1980; The Poetry of Robert Frost, 1981; Signum Et Verbum, 1981; A Green Place, 1982; Birds and Beasts, 1990; Behind the King’s Kitchen, 1992; The Girl in Glass in 2002; and The Adventurous Gardener in 2005.
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1982
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University of Virginia
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1981
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Hermitage Museum of Norfolk, Virginia
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1978
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University of Virginia
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1977
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Shows of his woodcuts were held at the Long Beach Art Museum, California, and Yale University
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