Hard Coal, Hard Life: The Depression Era Art of the Ukrainian American Nicholas Bervinchak
My interest in the artistic work of Nicholas Bervinchak is intensely personal. In the mid-1980s, I was flipping through some prints at The Ukrainian Museum gift shop in New York City, when I came across a piece entitled "Buck Run Colliery" (1933). The scene really caught my eye because my Dad grew up in the coal patch in Primrose, P.A., and this looked like a great Christmas gift for him. I didn’t buy the print that day, but the scene was permanently etched into my mind.
