The Jurii Maniichuk and Rose Brady collection of Soviet Ukrainian art

When Ukrainian American lawyer Jurii Maniichuk died unexpectedly in Kyiv in 2009, his wife, Rose Brady, inherited his collection of 140 Soviet-era paintings from Ukraine. Maniichuk had assembled the collection while working as a legal consultant in the newly independent country in the 1990s. Drawing on her late husband's archive, the author takes readers on Maniichuk's journey to identify, acquire, catalogue, and export works painted by leading Ukraine-based artists of various nationalities from 1950 to the mid-1980s. The collector accomplished this feat with the help of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, art specialists and friends-all before he married Brady in 2000. The book describes the couple's efforts to fulfill Maniichuk's goal, which was to find a permanent home for the paintings in the U.S. or Europe. After her husband's death, Brady lends paintings to the Brooklyn Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York but only finds a home for the collection after donating the works to the Georgia Museum of Art of University of Georgia, the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College and The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book includes a foreword by Myroslava Mudrak, Professor Emerita of Art History of The Ohio State University.