Jaroslaw Leshko, curator of inaugural exhibition (03/27/05)

PREVIEW: THE NEW UKRAINIAN MUSEUM IN NEW YORK CITY

Jaroslaw Leshko, curator of inaugural exhibition

NEW YORK - The guest curator of The Ukrainian Museum's exhibition "Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity" is Prof. Jaroslaw Leshko.

Dr. Leshko is professor emeritus of art at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., where he has taught the history of 19th and 20th century art for 35 years. He has also been a guest professor at Hunter College in New York City, at Amherst College and at Mount Holyoke College. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Prof. Leshko's interest in sculpture dates to his time in graduate school, where he studied the history and theory of sculpture with Rudolf Wittkower and H.W. Janson. At Smith College he taught courses on the history of sculpture and gave seminars on 19th and 20th century sculpture.

Prof. Leshko's area of interest is early modernism. He has lectured widely and curated many exhibitions, published numerous articles both in the U.S. and internationally, and authored four books: "Orbis Pictus: The Prints of Oskar Kokoschka, 1906-1976"; "Jacques Hnizdovsky, 1915-1985: Retrospective Exhibition" (exhibition catalogue); "The Paintings of Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn"; and "Smith College Museum of Art European and American Paintings and Sculpture, 1760-1960" (with John Davis).

Prof. Leshko is also the author of the comprehensive analytical essay in the illustrated, bilingual (English-Ukrainian) catalogue that accompanies The Ukrainian Museum's Archipenko exhibition.

The materials in this special section were prepared by Marta Baczynsky and Romana Labrosse.

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