Commemoration Art
This gallery presents art that was produced to commemorate the Holodomor over the past 82 years. The art depicts the tragic demise of the Ukraine people and their suffering through that time period.
Please Note: These images come from the collection of “HOLODOMOR: THROUGH THE EYES OF UKRAINIAN ARTISTS” by Morgan Williams the Founder and Trustee. They cannot be distributed or used in any other format without first seeking the permission of Mr. Morgan Williams. The full collection of over 160 Holodomor artworks, information about them and how you may utilize them for your project needs may be found at this direct link.
Those Crows Have Flown, By I. Novobranets. From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a stylized painting, again bright colours depict a mother mourning the body of her young dead boy,
starved to death. With her eyes closed, her hands are flung to the heavens where the crows cross the sky, where a black sun hangs. By: Novobranets Ivan
In the Year 1933 - By I. Novobranets - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a stylized painting, bright colours depict a village grave yard with mourners in their cultural dress,
hovered over mass graves, and standing next to carts of starved to death loved ones.
Ominous black crows fill the sky as bodies have been buried, 6 or more in a plot. By:Novobranets Ivan
Millions of Ukrainian peasants - By O. Nikolayets - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
A black and white drawing of a parent and child sitting underneath a wooden cross. The child lies dead from starvation in lap of the parent who looks to be close to the same fate, head down, above them the cross says- Ukraine 1932 1933. By: Nikolayets Oleksandr
- By Nina Marchenko - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
Depicts a young emaciated boy no more than 10 years old, pulling a smaller, bound, cadaver on a cart
through a village with people dying of starvation, watching on without an strength to help. By: Marchenko Nina
Mother of the Year 33 - By Nina Marchenko- From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a stylized painting depicting starving villagers crowded together,
watching as the bodies of their loved ones are piled high atop a chart,
to be taken to a mass grave to be buried.
This happened quite often during the Holodomor,
at times they would take people who were close to death but still alive. By: Marchenko Nina
The Children of the Holodomor- Nina Marchenko - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This stylized painting depicts golden wheat ready to be harvested in the background, in the foreground a mother
with swollen legs lies dead on her young daughters lap, the daughter hides her mothers face with her
own emaciated hand. Along the side of the mother sits a naked toddler with a distended stomach who looks to be attempting
to wake the mother. By: Marchenko Nina
By Nina Marchenko - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a stylized painting depicting starving children and a mother sitting
outside of their house up against the wall next to the door. Both children are emaciated, and the mothers legs have
begun to swell from the starvation. To the left is a young boy who has approached with a distended stomach and is begging
for food. However, it's clear that the family has nothing to offer the boy, nor anything to feed themselves with. By: Marchenko Nina
Stalin and the Bones of Ukraine by Y. Luniov - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a political cartoon, black and white poster, depicting Stalin playing a drum worn at his waist,
he plays it with a pair of bright white bones. By:Luniov Yevhen
Months of Starvation - From the collection of "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams
This is a photograph of two spoons placed on top of one another forming a cross,
tied at the center with a thin hemp string, at the bottom of the image is embroidery,
another Ukrainian cultural art form.
This image is suppose to speak to the millions that died from hunger during the holodomor. By:Lekomtsev O-Morozovskiy
Complete Collectivisation - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
Black and white -it depicts a dead tree with countless crosses at it's base. By: Kutkin Volodymyk
Nobody Wanted to Die - By M. Chervotkin - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a painting of a golden wheat field with a blue sky with a few clouds,
the very image the Ukrainian flag is symbolic of.
In the Wheat field are crosses, six sporadically placed from one another,
with just a year carved into the center of them, 1932 and another 1933. By:Chervotkin Mykola
From Genocide of Culture to Genocide of Nation - By O. Bily - From the collection "Holodomor; through the eyes of Ukrainian artists" Founder Trustee Morgan Williams.
This is a political poster, drawn and coloured, depicting a soviet solider breaking pysanky.
Pysanky are coloured eggs, an art form using bee's wax and dyes and are traditionally made around Easter by Ukrainians.
He is breaking the pysanky with a scythe, which is usually used to cut wheat, which is how they starved millions pf Ukrainians,
but taking away their food, their main food being wheat.
The pysanky are broken at his feet and appear to be bleeding blood, representing the death of both Ukrainians and their culture. By: Bily Oleh