Mychajlo Serhiyovych Dmytrenko ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Дмитренко; November 9, 1908, Lokhvytsi,

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– March 8, 1997) was a

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painter of world recognition. Dmytrenko settled in Detroit and examples of his work can be found there. Along with his other works Dmytrenko was responsible for the interior design of the St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in the

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between 1977 and 1989.

Education

He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1930, where he studied with

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References

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Model for proposed monument to the Ukrainian bard Taras H. Shevchenko by Mykhailo Dmytrenko in the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum of Detroit
1908 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Ukrainian painters 20th-century Ukrainian male artists People from Lokhvytsia Soviet emigrants to the United States Ukrainian male painters {{Ukraine-painter-stub