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Українська графіка та книжкове мистецтво
An early-20th-century renaissance of Ukrainian graphic art, typography, book illustration and state symbolism. Its founding figure Heorhiy Narbut created the visual identity of the modern Ukrainian state.

1873–1952
Pioneering painter, architect and graphic artist; a founder of Ukrainian Art Nouveau; designed the trident state emblem and banknotes of the UNR (1918); emigrated, died in Venezuela.

1886–1920
Founding genius of modern Ukrainian graphic art; designed UNR banknotes, stamps and the state emblem, and the celebrated Ukrainian Alphabet; professor and rector of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts.

1899–1937
Close associate of Boychuk; painter, ceramicist and book artist best known for his complete cycle of illustrations to Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'; executed by the NKVD in 1937.

Heorhiy Narbut
A sheet from Narbut's Ukrainian Alphabet depicting the letter А with folk and Baroque motifs.

Heorhiy Narbut
Narbut's design for the 100 karbovantsiv note, the first banknote of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Vasyl Krychevsky

Heorhiy Narbut
Narbut's heraldic project for the state coat of arms, built around the Volodymyr trident.

Heorhiy Narbut

Vasyl Sedliar
A partly destroyed monumental painting; one of the few surviving works of Sedliar, executed in 1937.

Vasyl Sedliar

Vasyl Sedliar
An illustration for the landmark 1931 'Kobzar' in the monumental Boychukist style.