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Hard Coal, Hard Times: The Social Realist Art of Nicholas Bervinchak

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York

Art at the Institute is pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite coal mining towns (also known as patches) of northeast Pennsylvania. Please join us…