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For Ukrainian sculptor Petro Kapschutschenko, art was always an important part of his life. He passionately sketched the people that surrounded him and the Cossack culture that dominated Ukraine during the early 20th-c. At the age of 26, Kapschutschenko was placed in a forced labor camp in Germany. During this troubling time, he found that art was his escape from the life he was living. In 1949, he resettled in the Americas, first in Argentina and then later in Philadelphia, where he lived the rest of his life. Kapschutschenko produced the Female Potter during his later years, demonstrating his lifelong interest in traditional Ukrainian themes and figures, as well as his talent for capturing human emotion and moments in time. In the Female Potter, Kapschutschenko renders a woman who shows pride and enjoyment while working with a complicated art form.Label Type
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Gift of John Bruce Schmitt, '66